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I got really excited until I saw that it didn't support Windows yet and required Ruby 1.9. Nice looking setup at least though. Anyone know how soon Windows sup

• alttab 16y ago
  Good luck having that one perform. Ruby on Windows is slower than the dog-dust in my mother's urn above the fireplace. Tongue in cheek aside - this would be really cool if it actually ran in a browser. Linking to external content, having resource based URLs, etc - all the good things about web development - are taken away once you leave the browser.
  • costan 16y ago
    I wouldn't expect performance to be a problem. For computational tasks, Ruby works just as fine on Windows as on a UNIX platform. Windows perf suffers because (1) in some rare cases, the needed primitives aren't provided by the kernel, and (2) Windows does some things differently, and Ruby library authors don't have the incentives to design and maintain a separate codepath for Windows. The issues above don't usually arise in desktop applications. They're seen most often in server code -- fork is missing and that sucks, asynchronous I/O works differently, file monitoring and pipes also work differently, etc.
• maccman 16y ago
  Bowline is being developed for Taskforce (http://taskforceapp.com http://taskforceapp.com), a commercial application, so Windows support is definitely coming. Estimation... well, I think we'll have support by September.