On: Is Flex/Actionscript a real programming language? Can it do what Java does? (work offline, write files, networking etc.)

[juwo]

can I write a standalone desktop program in Ruby? (I dont know).

BTW my feedback on your work http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=17871

[_csoo → juwo]

Yes: http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/rubyscript2exe/index.html

Next time just Google for "Ruby standalone". Saves me the trouble of doing it for you ;)

[juwo → _csoo]

You proved my point - for me - better than I could have done so myself :)

If I have to google for it and come up with a 3rd party tool, then it isnt part of the language!

And FYI, I wasnt writing my comment in complete ignorance nor laziness. I did go to the ror site when I first heard of it here on YC. When I realized it seemed to be a scripting language with a web server, I lost interest. Offline is very important for me/juwo.

[jaggederest → juwo]

try python. well supported windowing toolkits. and it doesn't suck.