Sunday, August 13. 2006
The KDE Ruby Corner
As my fellow KDE developer Carsten wrote yesterday, we have lately observed an increased interest in Ruby in the KDE community. There's a lot of buzz everywhere, and we often see Ruby related questions on IRC. Being Ruby fans ourselves, we've decided it's a good time to bring KDE-Ruby folks together, and start a little "Ruby Corner". For now, this means blogging, and our new IRC channel #kde-ruby on freenode.
Everyone interested in Ruby is invited to join #kde-ruby, both newbies and experienced hackers. We're happy to help with Ruby related questions, and we also use this channel to plan further activities. The channel is also home to insanity, our powerful Ruby bot, that can be programmed directly from IRC - a nice tool for quickly checking out some code.
Hope to meet you in #kde-ruby
PS: Did you know that Ruby is currently one of the fastest growing programming languages?
Everyone interested in Ruby is invited to join #kde-ruby, both newbies and experienced hackers. We're happy to help with Ruby related questions, and we also use this channel to plan further activities. The channel is also home to insanity, our powerful Ruby bot, that can be programmed directly from IRC - a nice tool for quickly checking out some code.
Hope to meet you in #kde-ruby
PS: Did you know that Ruby is currently one of the fastest growing programming languages?
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It's good to see KDE having so much activity in the Ruby area. It's really a nice language (in my opinion).
However, now that Ruby's covered, someone needs to put together some Qt/KDE bindings for Haskell, preferably in a functional reactive programming style. Anyone want to whip some of those up really quick-like?
I've read a few papers on FRP and how it relates to GUIs, and it's interesting stuff (high-level and declarative rather than the usual imperative style), but it's always implemented on top of Tk or something (or in one case, wxWindows, but there's no KDE back end for that to my knowledge, and it was more of a proof-of-concept anyway).
Maybe one day I'll break out of my lethargy and learn enough about Qt and KDE (and the Haskell FRP libraries for that matter) to write such a library myself (no small task, no doubt). Or maybe someone will beat me to it. Then I can have my dream of tooling around making declarative GUIs in a (relatively) esoteric language with a toolkit I enjoy (not that I have any good ideas for stuff to build if I had such a library). And then all sorts of KDE people can become expert category theorists!
However, now that Ruby's covered, someone needs to put together some Qt/KDE bindings for Haskell, preferably in a functional reactive programming style. Anyone want to whip some of those up really quick-like?
I've read a few papers on FRP and how it relates to GUIs, and it's interesting stuff (high-level and declarative rather than the usual imperative style), but it's always implemented on top of Tk or something (or in one case, wxWindows, but there's no KDE back end for that to my knowledge, and it was more of a proof-of-concept anyway).
Maybe one day I'll break out of my lethargy and learn enough about Qt and KDE (and the Haskell FRP libraries for that matter) to write such a library myself (no small task, no doubt). Or maybe someone will beat me to it. Then I can have my dream of tooling around making declarative GUIs in a (relatively) esoteric language with a toolkit I enjoy (not that I have any good ideas for stuff to build if I had such a library). And then all sorts of KDE people can become expert category theorists!
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