Re: [rgui-dev] Say no to SWT! :)

[Massimiliano Mirra]

On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 08:13:35AM -0700, Leon Torres wrote:
> Not having to code in C is heaven. I'd rather help one such project
> plug into SDL than waste time on gutopia/SWT. Once the ball gets
> rolling on the pure-ruby tk, something very big will be born. Think
> TCL/Tk. Gutopia will be rendered redundant. Until such a time
> though, gutopia has the chance to be a bridge between now and the
> future RubyTk.

And let's also remember that the future might well be Parrot and
bytecode compilation, so many today's performance concerns with a
pure-or-almost Ruby implementation, might be gone tomorrow...


Massimiliano