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Besides using Appcelerator's Titanium Desktop, are there other approaches to integrating Javascript and Ruby/Python into cross-platform desktop applications? Just trying to get a sense of the landscape here. From searching the web, it seems Titanium may be leading the charge in terms of this type of integration. I wasn't able to find references that suggest you can do something similar in Adobe AIR.

I am interested in building desktop applications that exploit Protovis and possibly other Javascript interactive vis packages for the UI. At the end of the day, I can go the web app route if need be, but being able to develop desktop apps is helpful.

Would appreciate your perspective on this...

Chris

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Have a look at CEF Python that embeds Chrome engine. – Czarek Tomczak Oct 27 '12 at 9:11

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There is Pyjamas Desktop, but might be a bit out of date.

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Why out of date? Development seems to be quite active. – nikow Mar 12 '10 at 23:18
@nikow: Well, the last packaged download is from 2008 or so. – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams Mar 12 '10 at 23:20
Is that maybe because it is now part of the Pyjamas main distribution? – nikow Mar 13 '10 at 10:18
Thanks for the feedback Ignacio. Will have a look... – Chris Mar 18 '10 at 6:47
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You can also script Swing or SWT with JRuby, either directly, or via one of the numerous frameworks.
You might manage to integrate protovis via a webkit or gecko (like redcar does) embedding, or a java html renderer, there are some. Or just use a java viz kit.

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Appreciate the feedback clyfe. – Chris Mar 18 '10 at 6:48

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