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AndyObtiva / glimmer

DSL Framework consisting of a DSL Engine and a Data-Binding Library used in Glimmer DSL for SWT (JRuby Desktop Development GUI Framework), Glimmer DSL for Opal (Pure Ruby Web GUI), Glimmer DSL for LibUI (Prerequisite-Free Ruby Desktop Development GUI Library), Glimmer DSL for Tk (Ruby Tk Desktop Development GUI Library), Glimmer DSL for GTK (Ruby-GNOME Desktop Development GUI Library), Glimmer DSL for XML (& HTML), and Glimmer DSL for CSS
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Add support for slint-ui #22

Closed dsisnero closed 2 years ago

dsisnero commented 2 years ago

Describe the issue

https://slint-ui.com/ is a rust powered ui with low memory requirements. Now that cargo extensions can be installed with rubygems- it would be nice to have a ruby gem that connects to slint-ui and glimmer support for this.

AndyObtiva commented 2 years ago

Slint UI is less mature than all of the currently supported Glimmer GUI toolkits, so I am not sure why you would even request it instead of just using one of the Glimmer DSLs.

Slint UI is also too incomplete and immature (seems like vaporware at this point), has no community support, and its .slint UI syntax seems just like a copycat of Ruby and Glimmer for the most part, so I'm surprised why they didn't just use Ruby and Glimmer from the get-go instead of building it.

I encounter people who ask questions like that every once in a while who seem to focus more on theory and excitement than building things and producing finished products. Unfortunately, that's an exercise in futility. Just build something with Glimmer instead.

In any case, I am not fond of the Rust language as I consider it a crutch for people who are bad at C development. Those who are good at C tend not to need Rust, and those who are not good at C tend not to need Rust either as they specialize in higher level languages.

And, people have been happily using Java for years despite its high memory requirements because our computers nowadays have many gigabytes of memory, so any Rust memory optimizations are premature unnecessary optimizations for most business apps.

Nonetheless, I did not find anything on the official rubygems website guide regarding Rust cargo extensions, so any support must be unofficial experimental support by outsiders only at this point.

I am closing this.