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Finally, it's about time. I've been working with Rails for several years now and it's an absolute joy to use. It made me wonder whether it's possible to make so

Finally, it's about time. I've been working with Rails for several years now and it's an absolute joy to use. It made me wonder whether it's possible to make something similar for desktop apps. It's good that this is built in Python. I used to use C to write desktop apps, but developing in C is very, very slow. Using Python not only allows quick development, but it also allows you make "binary" packages that run on all Linux variants irregardless of ABI differences. However, Quickly is doing something wrong compared to Rails: marketing and polish. The Quickly website is just a Launchpad page, and their documentation is just a wiki. They should have a proper website with documentation in an easy-to-read format that doesn't feel messy, maybe a few screencasts too. The current "website" looks to amateurish and doesn't exactly invite me to use it.

fhars 17y ago
And they should be searchable on the web. Somehow I can't stop thinking that this announcement is a misguided followup to the "Think twice before naming your new programming language" article posted a few day ago http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=779108 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=779108
- natrius 17y ago
  Even with namespace collisions, it's usually easy enough to find software if you search for "$NAME project". The first result for "quickly project" is related to quickly, though inadvertently. In a week or two, the Launchpad page will probably be the first result.
  - fhars 17y ago
    That will find the project home page. Now how do I find blogs discussing the project? If every web page mentioning the project would always link to the canonical url of the project page, I could search for these links, acting as if the real project name were https://launchpad.net/quickly https://launchpad.net/quickly, but that doesn't feel natural. And it requires the collaboration of every single author writing about quickly.
    - natrius 17y ago
      Hm. Good point.
petercooper 17y ago
If you did want to use Ruby, however, a new project called Bowline offers something similar: http://leadthinking.com/191-bowline-a-ruby-gui-framework http://leadthinking.com/191-bowline-a-ruby-gui-framework
timwiseman 17y ago
All good points, but the article points out that this is in early development stages. Most likely it will receive that much needed polish in short order with Canonical's resources behind it. (Edited to correct an amiguous phrase.)

fhars 17y ago

And they should be searchable on the web. Somehow I can't stop thinking that this announcement is a misguided followup to the "Think twice before naming your new programming language" article posted a few day ago http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=779108 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=779108

natrius 17y ago
Even with namespace collisions, it's usually easy enough to find software if you search for "$NAME project". The first result for "quickly project" is related to quickly, though inadvertently. In a week or two, the Launchpad page will probably be the first result.
- fhars 17y ago
  That will find the project home page. Now how do I find blogs discussing the project? If every web page mentioning the project would always link to the canonical url of the project page, I could search for these links, acting as if the real project name were https://launchpad.net/quickly https://launchpad.net/quickly, but that doesn't feel natural. And it requires the collaboration of every single author writing about quickly.
  - natrius 17y ago
    Hm. Good point.

petercooper 17y ago

If you did want to use Ruby, however, a new project called Bowline offers something similar: http://leadthinking.com/191-bowline-a-ruby-gui-framework http://leadthinking.com/191-bowline-a-ruby-gui-framework

timwiseman 17y ago

All good points, but the article points out that this is in early development stages. Most likely it will receive that much needed polish in short order with Canonical's resources behind it. (Edited to correct an amiguous phrase.)