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Can Ruby used to develop Desktop applications?
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Yes of course, Bowline was (the last version goes back to 2010) a framework for making cross platform desktop applications in Ruby, HTML and JavaScript.
https://github.com/maccman/bowline
You can even use 'shoes' for developing GUI apps with Ruby.
http://shoesrb.com
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Thanks @Dayve
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Thanks @Dayve!
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Yes, almost every OOP language does! Great question
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you can write terminal based apps and scripts very easily using ruby ( example: heroku-cli )
also games using the gosu library.
but, tradional gui apps aren't a viable option to be created using ruby at the moment.
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Good question! And how about mobile? Thank you @Dayve for info.
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even mobile prog
@iwan sorry to say otherwise but not really