Is shoes is a serious GUI toolkit for ruby?

Does someone create real desktop GUI application with shoes or is it just used for learning purposes? Can shoes be compared with qtruby or gtk for ruby?

Solution

What, for you, would make a "real" application?

Here's a comparison between Shoes and qtruby.

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