wxWidgets binding with Crystal

[xiaojin2630]

Hi, the wxruby3 you wrote is very good, I have been writing some GUI tools with it recently, which facilitates my daily work, thank you very much.
However, since Ruby is an interpreted language, GUI scripts are a bit slow to start, and I've been thinking about improving this. It wasn't until I met Crystal, I loved the Ruby language, the features, and I felt like I couldn't leave Crystal anymore. Then there's the tool to write my GUI using Crystal wxWidgets; But after my investigation, I found that wxwidgets cannot be used directly under Crystal (no binding for this language was found).
I was thinking, if you can write wxwidgets in Ruby, you might as well be able to write a binding in Crystal.
Do you have such a plan?

[mcorino]

Can you quantify "slow to start"? I've not yet encountered any problem like that.I never heard of Crystal before you mentioned it here. It doesn't seem that interesting to me. If I want/need a real performance boost for some application (part) I would write it in C++.So, no I have absolutely no plans to create a wxWidgets binding for Crystal (or any other language besides Ruby).On 20 Jun 2025 15:24, xiaojin2630 ***@***.***> wrote: Hi, the wxruby3 you wrote is very good, I have been writing some GUI tools with it recently, which facilitates my daily work, thank you very much. However, since Ruby is an interpreted language, GUI scripts are a bit slow to start, and I've been thinking about improving this. It wasn't until I met Crystal, I loved the Ruby language, the features, and I felt like I couldn't leave Crystal anymore. Then there's the tool to write my GUI using Crystal wxWidgets; But after my investigation, I found that wxwidgets cannot be used directly under Crystal (no binding for this language was found). I was thinking, if you can write wxwidgets in Ruby, you might as well be able to write a binding in Crystal. Do you have such a plan? —Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe.You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[xiaojin2630]

Thanks for the reply. I'm talking about slow, but when the script starts, it's relatively slow, I think it should be ruby itself, plus the time consumption caused by loading various gems, but after the GUI program is started, the work of each component is still very satisfying. Another GUI program I wrote earlier with wxruby3 is still normal to run it with ocran packaged as an exe. Recently, the front-end of the scanner written with wxruby3,Exe after packaging with ocran,Always prompts that some so is missing.,I know that this has nothing to do with wxruby.,But it made me sprout.,The combination of compilation language wxWidgets,So I asked about the binding of the Crystal language.。 Okay, that's okay, I'll figure it out for myself. But I'm still grateful to you for providing such a useful gem as wxruby3.