The Return of Shoes
summary
Shoes is a Ruby GUI toolkit that is native to Ruby and uses blocks heavily; it packages apps for Linux, OS X and Windows and runs real native widgets via Cocoa and GTK. Recent work produces Green Shoes (a Ruby-only GTK backend) and a Shoes 3.1 beta that moves to Ruby 1.9.2; Mac and Linux builds run but downloadable Lion binaries still crash unless rebuilt, Windows build is compiling but failing. Hackety Hack is a ~2k-line Shoes app and many 30–40 sample apps run and demo quickly.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction to Shoes
- 3:40The 10 gifts of Shoes
- 12:36Building a sample app
- 14:37Live demo and native widgets
- 17:04Scaling and Hackety Hack
- 20:02Project ecosystem and forks
- 22:45Challenges in maintenance
- 30:53Humanity in open source
- 36:50Future roadmap and conclusion
