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On Sun, 2015-10-04 at 04:58 +0200, gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu wrote:
> > And that's the "success story" of our community.
> > Every smart enough hacker tries to rewrite everything in his
> favourite
> > language.
> >
> 
> You say that like if you didn't insist on using scheme. I mean you
> don't 
> have to rewrite gschem because it already uses your favorite
> language, but 
> would you join Stefan and write ruby instead?

Sorry, I do not really understand that comment.

I do admit that Vladimir's critics is justified -- when everyone starts
from scratch in his favorite language chances are that the results are
only many unfinished pieces.

But the story is: I started with Peted in 2011: At that time no one was
really interested working on gschem, so I started for fun a clone in
Ruby and GTK. Ruby was a nice interesting language at that time, and I
was not aware how unpopular GTK would become a few years later. But now
a basic Peted version is nearly finished, so I think I should continue
it. I think later I will port it to Nim, that is not much work. But Nim
is even more exotic than Ruby to most people unfortunately.