home ‣ Rebol vs. Shoes
There's no justice in the world.Rebol 3 Alpha: 664 kB
Shoes (Ruby + UI framework): 25 MB
Capabilities: pretty similar
Ok, so Ruby probably does a little bit more, so it's a bit apples to oranges comparison, but it's one huge orange and one tiny apple.
Was there ever a better example of a gigantic difference that a thoughtful design can produce.
One data point: libcairo (which is a 2D graphic rendering library and is part of Shoes) comes in at 536 kB which is nearly the size of the whole Rebol system (which is a full blown language interpreter AND a 2D graphic rendering library with capabilities similar to libcairo AND a full blown UI framework with buttons, scrollbars and what not).