Re: Git User's Survey 2008 partial summary

From: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 4, 2008, 02:43 UTC
Message-ID: <402731c90809031943n181ad6fbw366f90e80aaca2a@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <94a0d4530809030925t33d4260bof169372d65717af4@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 6:20 PM, H.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 07:45:52 -0700, "Shawn O. Pearce"
>> <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > This is partial summary of Git User's Survey 2008 [...]
>>> >
>>> > 03. With which programming languages are you proficient?
>>> >
>>> > Around 939 people answered this question.  C is most popular with 59%;
>>> > Ruby and surprisingly a bit shell script programming have around second
>>> > place, with about 52-53%.  More people are proficient with Python than
>>> > in Perl by about 1/3-1/4.  Very few people (25 responses, around 3%)
>>> > feel proficient in Tcl/Tk, which means shallow pool of possible git-gui
>>> > and gitk contributors.
>>
>> Rewrite them in perl or python and get more patches?
>> The fact that it is not perl withheld me from finding solutions to
>> problems I still have with the git-gui gitk combination
>
> Ruby!
>
> --
> Felipe Contreras

There's already a python git-gui:
    http://cola.tuxfamily.org/

PyQt is a very mature library, which is one of the primary reasons I chose Python. Does Ruby have any good and mature UI libraries? I know it's all the rage for web stuff, but I haven't heard too much about people using it for GUIs.

-- 
 David