On: Pydown – An HTML5 presentation builder written in Python

[tantalor]

Beside not being written in ruby, how is this different than keydown?

[inovica → tantalor]

It doesn't looks like it is and the author has expressly stated that its inspired by Keydown

[tantalor → inovica]

Right that's why I ask. Why rewrite it? Was the author bored? Is this a serious project?

[groundCode → tantalor]

Why not rewrite it? - it's a good exercise, gave him another arrow in his programming quiver and gives people who prefer python the option to use it in python rather than ruby.

[klibertp → tantalor]

It's not a rewrite. It's a translation.

And it's done because there are developers out there who know Python and don't know Ruby. For them having a Python version of some software means that they can more easily integrate it and change it if they need to.

[alexwright → klibertp]

Or even just use a runtime they already have installed.