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What's interesting to me is that there are a handful of languages that include gui frameworks: tcl with tk, erlang binds wxwidgets, and racket has its own thing
by giraffe_lady 3y ago
What's interesting to me is that there are a handful of languages that include gui frameworks: tcl with tk, erlang binds wxwidgets, and racket has its own thing built on gtk.
It's curious what these languages have in common too: as languages almost nothing. But they're all venerable, proven & respected in their domains if not beloved, and relatively unpopular.
I don't know how to interpret that. Maybe it's just a coincidence. Or stdlib gui frameworks are just out of style and it's survivorship from the old ones. But then python is from around the same time, why doesn't it?
- remexre 3y agotkinter is the Python one!
- vram22 3y agoRuby has a Tk-based one too, but I don't remember the name, since I used it only a little, years ago, though I did some non-GUI Ruby and Rails web work.
- beeburrt 3y agoRubyMotion? http://www.rubymotion.com/ http://www.rubymotion.com/
- vram22 3y agoNo, I think it had a bundled one like Python's Tkinter, which was a wrapper over Tcl's Tk. Edit: this is it, Ruby Tk. https://ruby-doc.com/docs/ProgrammingRuby/html/ext_tk.html https://ruby-doc.com/docs/ProgrammingRuby/html/ext_tk.html