I recently published some new work to Hokusai Pocket, which is a cross-platform binary made on top of raylib and MRuby that runs GUIs from ruby scripts.

License?

MIT!

How does it work?

The binary is available on the GitHub releases page: https://github.com/skinnyjames/hokusai-pocket/releases/tag/0...

You can download the binary on x86 Windows, OSX, or Linux, and run your GUI application with

hokusai-pocket run:target="<your_hokusai_app.rb>"

For a little bit of a hello world, I started a photoshop clone

https://github.com/skinnyjames/hokusai_demo_paint

Also a little game

https://github.com/skinnyjames/pocket-squares

Docs / Help?

The docs are in progress, but the old docs for the CRuby version express some of the basic ideas around the project. https://hokusai.skinnyjames.net/docs/intro

(I'm also available to answer questions in between slinging pizza)

Deps?

Hokusai pocket currently uses

* libuv for offloading cpu intensive tasks to a worker pool to prevent blocking the UI thread, and I plan to integrate some libuv networking as well.

* raylib for backend graphics / I've also built with SDL on arm64 to run applications on my pinephone

* NativeFileDialog for the lovely integration into filesystem.

* MRuby for running or embedding the scripts

* tree-sitter for the custom template grammar (Although templates can be built with ruby)

Anyway, I hope you get a chance to try it. If you make something cool AND have docker installed, you can also publish your work as single binary

`hokusai-pocket publish:target=<your cool program.rb>`

Would love feedback, apps, and help with documentation and more build targets.

urs truly,

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