The wxRuby3 Ruby binding for wxWidgets (a very mature native cross-platform GUI toolkit) finally went version 1.0, so Glimmer DSL for WX, which runs on top of wxRuby3, has been upgraded to use version 1.0 by default. Also, a new feature has been added that is already available in most other Glimmer GUI DSLs: Unidirectional/Bidirectional Data-Binding. It enables effortless wiring of Views to Models for automatic data syncing with a single line of Ruby code per wired property, uniquely and intuitively relying on the `<=` operator for Unidirectional Data-Binding and the `<=>` operator for Bidirectional Data-Binding. A new sample has been added to demonstrate that feature, called "Hello, Data-Binding!".
Hello, Data-Binding! Sample Code:
Glimmer on!!!
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This looks cool. My first programming job 20 years ago was writing desktop apps/widgets for a company using Python and pyGTK GUI libraries. This reminds me of that but nicer with Ruby. Thanks for sharing!
Actually, there is a much more feature-rich and complete version of this project called Glimmer DSL for LibUI (Prerequisite-Free Ruby Desktop Development Cross-Platform Native GUI Library), which won a Fukuoka Ruby 2022 Special Award by Matz, the creator of Ruby:
https://github.com/AndyObtiva/glimmer-dsl-libui
There is also a more mature version of the project that runs on JRuby called Glimmer DSL for SWT (JRuby Desktop Development Cross-Platform Native GUI Framework), based on the Eclipse SWT GUI Toolkit that was used to create the Eclipse IDE, and supporting native executable packaging of Ruby applications as APP/DMG/PKG on the Mac, EXE/MSI on Windows, and DEB/RPM on Linux:
https://github.com/AndyObtiva/glimmer-dsl-swt
Glimmer DSL for WX is a new Glimmer spinoff that is aiming to bring the same features of the aforementioned Ruby projects to the very mature cross-platform native wxWidgets GUI toolkit.
I forgot to mention, there is also a Glimmer flavor for GTK called Glimmer DSL for GTK (Ruby-GNOME Desktop Development GUI Library) that aims at making GTK development much simpler and more productive than it is in any other programming languages:
https://github.com/AndyObtiva/glimmer-dsl-gtk
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