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Gtk GUI programming works? Also my platform of interest is NetBSD

This is one of the main things I'm working on. For now, what does work is a webview-type of GUI application - another thing I'm very focused on.

Let me put it like this:

- Just open the REPL (Arturo's terminal) - Write: webview "Hello World!"

Although super-minimal, you already have a Webview-based GUI app with something in it. It's a starting point :)

Btw, have you managed to compile it on NetBSD? (It should run fine, I think, though I haven't tried it yet...)

Thanks for reply. I will try to build on NetBSD and let you know. nim build on NetBSD so it shouldn't be problem with that.

BTW if you want logo mascot designed for your language check this out: https://opensourcedesign.net/

Hmm... I had no idea. Thanks a lot for the suggestion :)

P.S. A little bit of trivia: my choice of the scorpion logo was no random selection at all. Arturo was my little (well, not so little) Black Emperor scorpion that passed away in February. Hence, the name. And the logo...

The scorpion logo is fine and matches the gist of the project: Nim and Rebol are somewhat exotic but really powerful if you can tame them. My subjective 2 cents..

FYI, I've just published the first complete reference (language reference + full library reference, with tons of examples): https://github.com/arturo-lang/arturo/wiki

Let me know what you think! :)

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