Valentino Stoll

everybody welcome to another episode of the ruby rogues podcast i'm your host today valentino stoll and we're joined by a very special guest today andy mala did i say that right andy uh andy male yep male sorry i should have asked you before uh do you want to just introduce yourself and i i'm sure some people uh have heard you before on our show here uh but just give everybody an introduction and uh you know why you're famous

everybody welcome to another episode of the ruby rogues podcast i'm your host today valentino stoll and we're joined by a very special guest today andy mala did i say that right andy uh andy male yep male sorry i should have asked you before uh do you want to just introduce yourself and i i'm sure some people uh have heard you before on our show here uh but just give everybody an introduction and uh you know why you're famous

That's awesome. Yeah, I didn't know you won the Fukuoka Ruby Award. Congratulations on that.

That's awesome. Yeah, I didn't know you won the Fukuoka Ruby Award. Congratulations on that.

Awesome. So what is Glimmer?

Awesome. So what is Glimmer?

Maybe I'm just old. I don't really know if that's like still used even. Is that a close comparison to what we're talking about?

Maybe I'm just old. I don't really know if that's like still used even. Is that a close comparison to what we're talking about?

I see that. It makes a ton of sense. I guess, like, thinking about, like, styling, are you pretty, like, restricted then to, of, like, the, you know, operating systems style limitations for a lot of these components?

I see that. It makes a ton of sense. I guess, like, thinking about, like, styling, are you pretty, like, restricted then to, of, like, the, you know, operating systems style limitations for a lot of these components?

It's interesting you mentioned gaming aspects because I know the Ruby gaming engine of choice lately is DragonRuby. I know that evolved from Ruby Motions. as the de facto desktop builder application. I don't know if that's still maintained or not. Is there any comparison you can make between Glimmer and RubyMotion?

It's interesting you mentioned gaming aspects because I know the Ruby gaming engine of choice lately is DragonRuby. I know that evolved from Ruby Motions. as the de facto desktop builder application. I don't know if that's still maintained or not. Is there any comparison you can make between Glimmer and RubyMotion?

Yeah, that makes sense. I mean, he's the best tool for the best job. And I love so like, thank you for the backstory and Glimmer. And I mean, we had you on today to talk about this new, you know, thing you've been working on with Glimmer Web, which is fascinating to me. What What drew you in this direction? Do you want to describe maybe what the Glimmer DSL for web is?

Yeah, that makes sense. I mean, he's the best tool for the best job. And I love so like, thank you for the backstory and Glimmer. And I mean, we had you on today to talk about this new, you know, thing you've been working on with Glimmer Web, which is fascinating to me. What What drew you in this direction? Do you want to describe maybe what the Glimmer DSL for web is?

And it's because it's funny you mentioned that, you know, we as web developers are really desktop app developers. So you want to just like dive into how that correlates?

And it's because it's funny you mentioned that, you know, we as web developers are really desktop app developers. So you want to just like dive into how that correlates?

This is really interesting because we are kind of missing a, you know, a hard stance on front end in the Rails community, at least, but definitely in Ruby as well. And Opal has been kind of the closest thing I've seen. It's interesting you built kind of like on top of Opal. I know we've had Elian here before.

This is really interesting because we are kind of missing a, you know, a hard stance on front end in the Rails community, at least, but definitely in Ruby as well. And Opal has been kind of the closest thing I've seen. It's interesting you built kind of like on top of Opal. I know we've had Elian here before.

talking about opal and it's like a really great work uh just so smooth of a process uh and i love your the dsl you have here uh in your to-do list app that you've made uh which is like so simple and easy to read uh we'll share it here in our show notes um so i'm like really curious a lot of this looks uh similar to kind of like the flex markup for those familiar with uh the

talking about opal and it's like a really great work uh just so smooth of a process uh and i love your the dsl you have here uh in your to-do list app that you've made uh which is like so simple and easy to read uh we'll share it here in our show notes um so i'm like really curious a lot of this looks uh similar to kind of like the flex markup for those familiar with uh the