A few weeks ago I set out to build a GUI app using wxHaskell. Long story short, we ditched the entire idea of a desktop GUI and went for a web application instead, because it was easier to develop a front-end for it and it was easier to style it. So here's my (perhaps slightly provoking) question: do we need to care at all about good GUI toolkits being available? Web applications, especially with an HTML 5 front-end, have become increasingly more powerful. If we can also find a good, standardized way to generate JS from our Haskell code, we're pretty much all set.
Jurriën On 18 May, 2011, at 08:29 , Tom Murphy wrote: >> I still haven't found any way to do GUIs or interactive graphics in Haskell >> on a Mac that isn't plagued one or more of the following serious problems: >> >> * Incompatible with ghci, e.g., fails to make a window frame or kills the >> process the second time one opens a top-level window, >> * Goes through the X server, and so doesn't look or act like a Mac app, >> * Doesn't support OpenGL. >> > > If there doesn't currently exist something without these > handicaps, that's a serious problem for the use of Haskell for > developing end-user software. > If we as a community want to be able to develop software for > end-users (i.e. people who'll be thrown off by gtk widgets or x11 > windows)*, then it would be a very good idea to focus our energies on > one or two promising pre-existing libraries, and hammer them into > completion. A roadmap for this could be worked on at Hac Phi? > > Just my 2¢, > Tom > > *This, of course, would NOT be avoiding success at all costs. :) > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
