[MacRuby-devel] 0.3 available for testing

[Charles Oliver Nutter]

Laurent Sansonetti wrote:
> Good point, I think we both have the same problem here :) Both Java  
> and Cocoa APIs are in general too verbose and do not integrate well in  
> the Ruby world, and this scares many rubyists.

At least you're lucky people don't loathe the Cocoa APIs as much as they 
tend to loathe Java APIs :). But I think the eventual "ideal" in both 
cases would leave little loathing, verbosity, or confusion for users.

> I personally do not see a problem if we discuss API design here. I  
> think it's a great idea. We can't really discuss everything, because  
> it would take too much time, but we can share our API designs, or at  
> least help each other.

I'd be more than happy to pull some sample code from each of the 5 (6? 
7?) JRuby/Swing frameworks and offer them up (with my own comments and 
opinions) for discussion and critique. Others familiar with other 
backends might do the same. Does that seem reasonable?

- Charlie