Is Bowline abandoned? about bowline HOT 3 CLOSED

I wonder the same.

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Sorry, it pretty much is. If anyone wants to contribute, I'm happy to open up commit access.

I guess I gave it up in favor of JavaScript web applications. It's amazing what you can do nowadays in the browser with HTML5/CSS3 - I think it's the future. I'm currently writing a book for O'Reilly on the subject.

I think it was the realization that JS could do all of the frontend really well (without involvement from Ruby), and that actually the language wasn't too bad ;)

If I was to build Bowline again, I'd take a very different approach by using MacRuby. As you can see from ichabod, it's very easy to use WebKit from Ruby - and expose Ruby objects to JavaScript - https://github.com/maccman/ichabod

When the application I'm currently developing comes to fruition, I may put something together on those lines - basically a MacRuby version of http://fluidapp.com/

Cheers,
Alex

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Thanks,

I'm a bit too busy to contribute. Keep up the good work on juggernaut2 I'm more interested in that project. Mountain West Ruby conf had a talk on desktop platforms and it had me wondering about this project.

Dave
www.ror-e.com

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