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PySimpleGUI
Python GUIs for Humans! PySimpleGUI is the top-rated Python application development environment. Launched in 2018 and actively developed, maintained, and supported in 2024. Transforms tkinter, Qt, WxPython, and Remi into a simple, intuitive, and fun experience for both hobbyists and expert users.
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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!
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InfluxDB
InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.
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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.
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libui
Simple and portable (but not inflexible) GUI library in C that uses the native GUI technologies of each platform it supports.
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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 t
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SaaSHub
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- Glimmer: DSL Framework for Ruby GUI and More
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Ruby vs. Python comes down to the for loop (2021)
Glimmer is a award winning GUI Toolkit for ruby which supports every major platform (gtk, qt, wxwidgets, swt, swing, java fx, etc), it can also output as SVG or CSS: https://github.com/AndyObtiva/glimmer
- Shoes makes building little graphical programs for Mac, Windows, Linux simple
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What would an ideal language for teaching new programmers be like?
Here's the github for the glimmer GUI library . https://github.com/AndyObtiva/glimmer
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Emerging Rust GUIs in a WASM world
I don't quite understand why you would need to only create a web application. I see the future much more similar to like what glimmer (but in ruby https://github.com/AndyObtiva/glimmer) is doing. Write once, run verywhere.
- The "preferred" way to develop GTK applications
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Two probably-controversial ideas for new widgets for desktop Linux, please give feedback
Personally I'd love to have a "meta-DSL" that can describe widgets and functionality without being tied to a specific language. A bit like glimmer: https://github.com/AndyObtiva/glimmer however had unified for as many possible languages out there, and not tied to a specific language per se.
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GTK or Qt from a user point of view
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
- Glimmer DSL for SWT Table Cell Data-Binding of Background/Foreground/Font/Image
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_why's Estate
The other project, which is a bit more akin to Shoes, is the glimmer suite. https://github.com/AndyObtiva/glimmer
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AndyObtiva/glimmer is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of Glimmer is Ruby.
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