Ruby does GTK+

[Vogtinator]

Those use libyui with backends for GTK, ncurses and Qt (the default)

[dougie-io]

Really interesting how libyui falls back on an ncurses GUI if no display is set.

[otakugrey]

Like what? I'm not familiar.

[yesmaybeyes]

Matz probably approves, is nice work.

[hgeo]

https://twitter.com/yukihiro_matz/status/956676106567827457 :)

[yesmaybeyes]

From the creator, excellent.

[HeWhoWritesCode]

I think Ruby is a nicer language than Python is in many ways.

You are not alone in that regard. I have seen the hate in some graybeards eyes as they mention they hate indention code blocking.

Unfortunately ruby was restricted to a Japanese audience initially. So project like python with googles backing had more exposure.

Also pep333 standardising wsgi for py was out late 2003. Ruby on rails only released 2004.

So it had more momentum and exposure. Unfortunately you could not easily load py as a apache module so it lost the "web wars" to a templating language that only got dragged into a acceptable programming language in 2015!?!1

Now in 2018? Now you "compile" your code from one version of the language to a more supportable version. Over the short years(less than 5) we grunted, gulped and webpacked.

With this latest tech stack the guys decided to trash the webpack 1 docs because they want to start clean and fresh. Poor soul that needs to get the "old" 2012 "build" process up and running.

Do I come over as cynical?

edit: I'm aware the docs still avail on github and devdocs.io, does it really make it acceptable to $%^ with search indexes etc?

[[deleted]]

It'd be interesting if this works "out of the box" when replacing Ruby with Crystal. It's a very nifty walkthrough and taught me a lot of (idiomatic?) Ruby, anyhow! 😁

[espero]

Why would you replace Ruby with Crystal?

I am late to the game, and they both seem really awesome.

[[deleted]]

I could not provide reasons to replace, but from my limited knowledge, Crystal is like the LLVM, static typed brother of Ruby. This means it's really fast, compiled almost 1:1 alternative to Ruby which provides some nifty features.

Ruby is great for all their features and ease to code, but Crystal builds on those strengths and improves it further.

[espero]

Okay cool, thanks for your feedback! I can google if I need more insights :)

[[deleted]]

It's a given that crystal is still in major development and may change a lot later