Korundum Brings eXtreme RAD to Linux

anonymous writes "The Free Software community is on a quest for the next generation development environment. Is it .Net, is it Java? Many (including Havoc) are quick to dismiss some of the gems invented by the Free Software community itself. Yes, Ruby is an incredibly consistent and clean language designed specifically to incorporate many of the best features and ideas of predecessors. Absolutely everything in Ruby is an object and practically everything can be redefined or extended on the fly. The effects and resulting power of such flexibility can be quite astounding to those who have adapted to contemporary language limitations. Now, the Ruby environment has been seamlessly integrated into KDE through Korundum, meaning that well-integrated and first-class desktop citizens for Linux can be sketched and developed in an extremely short time. Caveat: No explicit compilation is required and programming seems so easy it feels like cheating."

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and so?

[jeif1k]

The Qt/Ruby bindings are probably nice. But how do they bring something that wasn't there before? We have had Qt/Python bindings, Gtk/Python bindings, Gtk/Ruby bindings, wxWindows/Python bindings, and wxWindows/Ruby bindings. All of them are pretty nice and pretty easy to use. Several of them are supported by visual GUI builders. Qt/Rube seems like just another possible combination.