A port of the GTK+3 Hello World to Bash
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A port of the GTK+3 Hello World to Bash
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Re: A port of the GTK+3 Hello World to Bash
#2I don't know if this is awesome or just sick.
Re: A port of the GTK+3 Hello World to Bash
#3This seems to basically showcase the ctypes.sh Bash plug-in, which is what is doing the magic calling into a native library. See https://github.com/taviso/ctypes.sh/wiki, that was very interesting.
Re: A port of the GTK+3 Hello World to Bash
#4I've never heard of ctypes.sh, but it sounds pretty interesting: https://github.com/taviso/ctypes.sh/wiki
Re: A port of the GTK+3 Hello World to Bash
#5I don't know if this is awesome or just sick.
Here are the reactions from the parent project's readme: https://github.com/taviso/ctypes.sh#here-is-what-people-have...
Re: A port of the GTK+3 Hello World to Bash
#6I don't know if this is awesome or just sick.
You can play with dynamic libraries without a compiler.
Re: A port of the GTK+3 Hello World to Bash
#7This seems to basically showcase the ctypes.sh Bash plug-in, which is what is doing the magic calling into a native library. See https://github.com/taviso/ctypes.sh/wiki , that was very interesting.
Previous discussion on ctypes.sh: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10184940
Re: A port of the GTK+3 Hello World to Bash
#8Why not use Tk/wish? Result is basically the same but means are much, much more conventional.
Re: A port of the GTK+3 Hello World to Bash
#9I don't know whether to be delighted or appalled, and I love the brain-twist.
Re: A port of the GTK+3 Hello World to Bash
#10I hate that something like this is possible.
This gives people who know only bash the ability to create a mess rather than learn a real scripting language like Python.