I have been browsing for more than 7 hours now, and I am still hesitating
and can't find any answers. As of now  my prefered language is python but I
am starting a project in which I would like to have multi-thread sound
manipulation on multiple platforms and apparantly ruby can fulfill this. Can
ruby record/play sounds on multiple platforms? Ruby has a network library
but not much is said on the sites I've seen where can I get more info on
streaming? UDP and TCP? also I would like to have a GUI front end what is
the standard GUI? (again must be multi-platform)
Can I compile Ruby code for easy distribution?(in python there is an app
called freeze which will embed the python interpreter to the code in one
executable) or a sort of VM like for squeak. how fast is Ruby?
best regards
Stephane