2009/12/4 M Xyz <[email protected]> > Greetings, my name is M. This is my first time posting to a mailing list so > forgive me if I've done something wrong. I just finished "Real World > Haskell" and am currently working through "School of Expression". I am new > to Haskell but I already love it. My question is this... > > I am interested in doing graphics work in Haskell, but I am lost trying to > pick a library. I've been designing engineering apps in Java for 6 years and > I'll admit I've been coddled by its standard library, lol. I am looking for > something very lightweight with the basic capabilities of Java's Graphics2D > class (antialias, composite, clipping, transformation, simple drawing > primitives, gradients). I want something simple and "lightweight" because my > interest is to play with building higher level abstractions myself. > > I use XP and Ubuntu so I'd prefer not to use the Graphics-Win32 library > used by "School of Expression" if there is a platform independent library. > I've read through > http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Applications_and_libraries/Graphics and > the pertinent libraries seem to be Haven, HGL or Cairo via Gtk2Hs right? > Which is the most popular/active and appropriate for a beginner to start > working with? > > I wrote http://hackage.haskell.org/package/timeplot and somewhat extended http://hackage.haskell.org/package/Chart for that. Chart is based on Cairo and I found it (Cairo) very easy and intuitive to use, yet quite powerful and performant. However, it is not a combinator library although you can make one based on it, if that's what you're looking for. There are quite a few graphics libraries based on Cairo on hackage, which means I'm not alone :)
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