[FoRK] Leopard scripting

[Jeff Bone]

On Jan 18, 2008, at 10:30 AM, Luis Villa wrote:

> On Jan 18, 2008 11:19 AM, Jeff Bone <jbone at place.org> wrote:
>> Have seen several of these, but apparently only bookmarked this one;
>> Ruby,  bigger than 100 lines, but intended as a full local
>> replacement for S3:
>>
>>    http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/parkplace/
>
> Speaking of Why... has anyone played with/looked at:
> http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/shoes/
>
> I'm very interested in the notion of Desktop Rails; it seems to me
> that a big part of why desktop applications are dying is that web
> development frameworks just seem much faster on the development side
> (albeit less rich.)

I bought the comic book / manual via LuLu, but haven't had a chance  
to play w/ it much.

I'm interested in all of these "simplified interactive dev  
environments" that are popping up lately:  Processing (Java,  
unfortunately), NodeBox (python, derivative of DrawBox by way of  
Processing), Shoes, and so on...

I think these are existence proofs in a sense that better interactive  
shell-like tools are needed, for which neither current-gen CLIs (too  
impoverished) nor IDEs (too monolithic, giant "software jails") suffice.

$0.02,

jb