# \[ANN\] Shoes Curious (0.r396) is out **URL:** \ **Category:** ruby-talk\ **Created:** [8 January 2008 21:37 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ann-shoes-curious-0-r396-is-out/43622 "2008-01-08T21:37:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![\_why](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/73ab20/32.png) [@\_why](https://rubytalk.org/u/_why)\ **Post date:** [8 January 2008 21:37 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ann-shoes-curious-0-r396-is-out/43622/1 "2008-01-08T21:37:31Z")
Today marks the first official release of Shoes, entitled Curious. Shoes is a tiny toolkit (coded in C) for writing windowing apps in Ruby. It's quite cross-platform, offering an environment for Windows, OS X, Linux, BSDs and many others. Shoes is a reactionary work, countering the widget-centric toolkits like FOX, QT and Tk. I take my cues from REBOL/View, Processing, NodeBox and the web. At its core, Shoes amounts to about 8,000 lines of C code and 1,000 lines of Ruby code. Shoes also includes a built-in manual. Run: shoes --manual. This document is perhaps 1/2 complete, let's say. At any rate, the new builds are: \* Windows XP/Vista:    [http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/dist/shoes-0.r396-curious.exe](http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/dist/shoes-0.r396-curious.exe) \* Mac OS X (Intel)    [http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/dist/shoes-0.r396-curious-intel.dmg](http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/dist/shoes-0.r396-curious-intel.dmg) \* Mac OS X (PowerPC)    [http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/dist/shoes-0.r396-curious-ppc-novideo.dmg](http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/dist/shoes-0.r396-curious-ppc-novideo.dmg) \* Linux/BSD source tarball    [http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/dist/shoes-0.r396-curious.tar.gz](http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/dist/shoes-0.r396-curious.tar.gz) Most Shoes discussion happens on [hackety.org](http://hackety.org). The Shoes development page is at: \<[http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/shoes](http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/shoes)\> And that, my friends, is that. \_why