Shoes makes building little graphical programs for Mac, Windows, Linux simple
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2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
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HN comment orderI used Shoes two (edit: three according to git) years ago to build a small software[1]. At the time there was a version 4 ongoing heavy development based on top of JRuby but I think it’s in the same state. The version 3.3 listed here has been officially abandoned by the sole developer. At the time they wrote a blog article about stopping the project but the blog is not available anymore (it’s the link in the description of the…
Perhaps this is nostalgia for times irretreviably past, but if someone were to start building toolkits and projects in almost _any_ language with the love and care and quirkiness that _why brought to the table, I'd almost certainly be writing that language as my primary within a year. I miss you, _why.
To use Shoes effectlively, consider read the Shoes book from _why, too. It's fun!
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- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 303
- Total comments
- 118
100+ points or 50+ comments
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-06-17 | Shoes.rb - Easily create GUIs in Ruby | thirsday | 3 | 0 |
| 2018-05-18 | Shoes – An easy little GUI toolkit for RubyFirst breakout | jxub | 114 | 36 |
| 2023-01-20 | Shoes The easiest little GUI toolkit, for Ruby | Tomte | 5 | 1 |
| 2024-02-23 | Shoes makes building little graphical programs for Mac, Windows, Linux simpleBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | johnchristopher | 181 | 81 |