I, for one, completely endorse your idea for a tightly integrated, cross-platform graphics system using Parrot. I even ++'d the node for the suggestion. It's that cool.

So ... when are you gonna write it? ;-)

I kid (a little). It is a cool idea, but beyond merely difficult to implement. A fair chunk of Swing's reputation for cross-platform effectiveness is based on nothing more than marketing. Some OS's go out of their way to be functionally different from others. It may or may not be a bad thing, but it does mean you can usually tell when you are running a Java application under OS X. This is despite the fact that some tremendous efforts have been made by Apple and Sun to make Java seem native under OS X.

If you really want to see something like this happen, you should either start a project or find a similar project. Seriously, go for it. Could be fun!

In reply to Re: Re: Re: The Secret Features of Perl6 by webfiend
in thread The Secret Features of Perl6 by jepri

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