On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 12:53:09PM -0700, Phlip wrote: > But even in these days of 256 Gig storage on quad-core workstations, I > still miss the heady clarity of ultra-lean GUI programs like UEdit, and its > awesome scripting language...
I am a bit disappointed that Shoes' dependencies are quite large. And, really, Ruby is the largest of these. While I contemplated using Lua or JavaScript, both seemed to clutter the syntax I had in mind. REBOL seems as close to perfect as I can imagine. It also uses Cairo, but doesn't have the amount of bundled libraries that Ruby has, so is much leaner. Perhaps once Rubinius and YARV come into play, we'll see much leaner Ruby and a thinner Shoes as well. _why
