glimmer-dsl-fx VS Shoes

Compare glimmer-dsl-fx vs Shoes and see what are their differences.

glimmer-dsl-fx

Glimmer DSL for FX (FOX Toolkit Ruby Desktop Development GUI Library) (by AndyObtiva)
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glimmer-dsl-fx Shoes
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1 1,581
- 0.3%
2.1 3.1
10 months ago 6 months ago
Ruby Ruby
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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glimmer-dsl-fx

Posts with mentions or reviews of glimmer-dsl-fx. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-04.

Shoes

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  • Shoes makes building little graphical programs for Mac, Windows, Linux simple
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Feb 2024
    As someone who has looked at Shoes several times but never dove in, it's confusing how Shoes 4 has been the "preview version" of Shoes for, like, a decade or more. It made me actively avoid getting invested in Shoes 3 (the release promoted on the linked website) because Shoes 4 requires JRuby and I am happy with CRuby (the Ruby interpreter most people think of when they hear "Ruby").

    https://github.com/shoes/shoes4/

    http://www.rubydoc.info/github/shoes/shoes4

    No disrespect to the developers but to me it feels like taking over a GUI toolkit created "to teach programming to everyone" (to quote the Shoes 4 readme) and making it depend upon a super-complicated enterprise-focused Ruby was sort of Missing The Pointâ„¢ in a huge way.

    Heck I couldn't even switch to JRuby if I wanted to because I <3 Ractors and JRuby still lacks CRuby 3.0 feature parity: https://github.com/jruby/jruby/issues/7459

What are some alternatives?

When comparing glimmer-dsl-fx and Shoes you can also consider the following projects:

glimmer-dsl-jfx - Glimmer DSL for JFX (JRuby JavaFX Desktop Development GUI Library)

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

Gladiator (Glimmer Editor) - Gladiator (short for Glimmer Editor) is a Glimmer DSL for SWT sample project under on-going development that demonstrates how to build a text editor in Ruby using Glimmer DSL for SWT (JRuby Desktop Development GUI Library). It is not intended to be a full-fledged editor by any means, yet mostly a fun educational exercise in using Glimmer. Gladiator is also a personal tool for shaping an editor exactly the way I like, with all the keyboard shortcuts I prefer. I leave building truly professional text editors to software tooling experts who would hopefully use Glimmer one day. Otherwise, I have been happily using Gladiator to develop all my open-source projects since May of 2020.

qtbindings - An easy to install gem version of the Ruby bindings to Qt

glimmer-dsl-tk - Glimmer DSL for Tk (Ruby Tk Desktop Development GUI Library)

RubyGnome2 - A set of bindings for the GNOME libraries to use from Ruby.

glimmer-dsl-swt - Glimmer DSL for SWT (JRuby Desktop Development Cross-Platform Native GUI Framework) - The Quickest Way From Zero To GUI - If You Liked Shoes, You'll Love Glimmer!

Humanizer - Very simple captcha with Rails 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 & 7 support

GoogleVisualr - A Ruby Gem for the Google Visualization API. Write Ruby code. Generate Javascript. Display a Google Chart.

glimmer-dsl-libui - Glimmer DSL for LibUI - Prerequisite-Free Ruby Desktop Development Cross-Platform Native GUI Library - The Quickest Way From Zero To GUI - If You Liked Shoes, You'll Love Glimmer! - No need to pre-install any prerequisites. Just install the gem and have platform-independent GUI that just works on Mac, Windows, and Linux.