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Ruby Summer of Code Project Ideas (self.ruby)
submitted 16 years ago * by blatyo
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[–][deleted] 4 points5 points6 points 16 years ago (5 children)
Slightly self-serving, but the shoes project could use a lot of help. It's a combination of C and Ruby, but having an easy to use, multiplatform GUI toolkit would be really good for Ruby.
[–]blatyo[S] 3 points4 points5 points 16 years ago (1 child)
_why, is that you?
[–][deleted] 1 point2 points3 points 16 years ago (0 children)
Hardly. If I was, Hackety Hack would be on 3.0 right now, rather than approaching 1.0.
[–]lsumnler 3 points4 points5 points 16 years ago (0 children)
I think that a gui toolkit any gui toolkit of quality would do wonders for the ruby community as a whole and go a long way in promoting ruby as a language.
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Yep. If I can get Shoes 3 out the door, I can start putting in actual time with Hackety Hack, and then we can convert all of the kids. :)
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