Dev tools · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to Artoo
Framework for physical devices written in Ruby
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Artoo launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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For a year or two I've been building a UI library with the aim of making desktop applications fun and easy to write. It is currently written in C/Ruby and uses a custom tree sitter grammar to describe templates. Features include: composable UI components, template directives, event and prop handling, slots, styles and automation capabilities baked in. One of the goals of the project is privileging easy to write custom components via a drawing API over providing a fixed set of components. At the time of this writing it should install on Windows, Mac, and Linux, but sometimes it is hard…
2025 · codeberg.org · its alternatives →
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Application architecture for the Famous rendering engine
2015 · famous.org · its alternatives →
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SparkFun▲77Bits and Pieces to Make Electronics Projects Possible
2014 · sparkfun.com · its alternatives →
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Smaller, better, and cheaper: $20
2014 · raspberrypi.org · its alternatives →
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Apache Weex▲127A framework for building mobile cross-platform UIs
2017 · incubator.apache.org · its alternatives →
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Neonto▲101Visual tool for creating native iOS and Android UIs
2014 · neonto.com · its alternatives →
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Supersonic▲89UI framework for building awesome hybrid mobile apps
2014 · appgyver.com · its alternatives →
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