A new project has launched to resurrect _why’s dream of desktop GUI programming in Ruby.
This initiative seeks to bring back Shoes, an old library that let you build little local desktop computer programs, package them up and give copies to people.
Scarpe is a rewrite of Shoes, because old Shoes doesn’t work any more. Read the full announcement here:
We’d love to hear your thoughts.
I’m excited by this idea. I’ve played with Shoes, and tried to find peace with using glade and gtk. Recently though I’ve been writing all my desktop tools in Tauri (a Rust framework, like electron).
I’d love to be able to write more graphical tools in ruby. Esp. for live data modeling experiments (where I’m currently using d3.js)
When I was growing up VB6 was still a thing, and being able to easily and intuitively build an interface where you can just point at a thing and add behavior to it was a beautiful gentle introduction, one that we could use more of today.
I recently just saw this tweet https://x.com/weswinder/status/2028934523115765811 about needing to build more desktop apps.
I wonder if this is a random coincidence or this is a sign to start learning it and better using Ruby 