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• alttab 16y ago
  I wonder what could be done in Ruby on the client that couldn't be done with Java or a web app. Most people won't want to set up the Ruby environment if they don't already have it - and the ones that do are too busy writing web apps to write thick client apps in Ruby. Get Ruby to run in the browser to replace JS and I might be surprised. Using Ruby to write thick clients seems backwards to me.
  • hrrld 16y ago
    There was a precursor to this project that tried it the other-way-round. It was a Gecko app with a Ruby interpreter bolted on. There was so much fail associated with that architecture that the idea of doing Shoes (really simple cross-platform Ruby thick clients) was born.