01:31 <sphex> Alright so publishing a gem really is no trouble.

01:31 <sphex> https://github.com/Math2/ruptr

01:32 <sphex> If anyone wants to check it out and try it on their test suites, please let me know of the result. I'd be interested to see how well it works.

01:32 <sphex> (It probably will not though...)

01:42 <weaksauce> sphex i was thinking how much code could it be and then opened up the lib folder... damn

02:01 <sphex> weaksauce: hehe yeah... I've been working on it for about a year I think.

02:02 <sphex> Supporting the RSpec API (even just partially) in particular was a lot of work.

02:02 <sphex> I kept adding to it long after it was able to run my test suites correctly. Now it supports a lot of stuff I don't even use.

07:42 <testone> o0x1eef: I'm open to any suggestion

07:43 <testone> it's true I'm 'placed' back in the past on ruby usage, therefore suggest me what should be used nowadays for a GUI program (with the incumbent option of the webapp)

07:56 <testone> (I can easily imagine myself in a near future switching to webapp development in order to have the program working in android&ios phones; but only if the serial device can be easily rebuilt in some new form usable by tablets/phones :D)

07:59 <o0x1eef> If you want to use Ruby, then I'd suggest web technologies. If you want to build a desktop application and run on as many platforms as possible with the same codebase, probably node-webkit or electron are a good fit. I'm not that recent on those choices. Beyond that I think you get into platform-specific languages and toolkits. Even with C++ and Qt you'd have to worry about platform-specific issues

07:59 <o0x1eef> far more.

08:03 <testone> c'est-à-dire: web or web ^_^'''

08:03 <o0x1eef> Some languages worth a look: Zig, Rust.

08:04 <testone> never heard zig, looking immediatly

08:04 <o0x1eef> https://ziglang.org

08:06 <o0x1eef> I think if I had to go with the desktop option, I'd strongly consider one of those two

08:08 <testone> I'm always on the wrong side: I liked OCaml and wanted to learn erlang, but the 'good' side is always C and derivatives :(

08:12 <o0x1eef> Different trade offs and different things they're especially good at. So you have to balance that with your requirements, etc.