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The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
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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
Works pretty well. It even makes the tray icon of Qt apps look GNOME-native (as long you have this GNOME Shell extension for system tray support, of course).
Qt is probably the more sophisticated toolkit, but GTK has a few things going. I love its language support + CSS. I wrote tons of ruby-gtk3 apps and hopefully ruby-gtk4 soon. No such thing exists for qt (ruby-qt died years ago). I actually write in a mostly GUI agnostic manner; andy pushed this to a new level though: https://github.com/AndyObtiva/glimmer
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