Thank you to everyone who answered to my question
Claus Reinke wrote:
> PS: Please do contribute to Olaf's GUI survey. If he could complete
> the GUI information on his Haskell page, that would be very useful.
> I share the suspicion that, after the FP community has invented all
> those nice new approaches to functional GUIs, many of them are no
> longer supported, let alone portable. I would like to have an
> overview of the current state of the art (please include old
> libraries, too - just because they are no longer supported, that
> doesn't mean they are not useful any more).
Taking up Claus' suggestion I enumerated all the systems I now know about on my
Haskell page: http://www-i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Forschung/FP/Haskell/#guis
Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
> I don't think any of these apart from Fudgets is currently released, stable,
> and actively maintained; nor, even if they
> were, do their authors believe that they are the last word (but they should
> speak for themselves).
Well, the overview shows that a lot has been done on GUIs for Haskell. However,
selecting a reliable and actively maintained system is still a problem. I'm
surprised that Sigbjorn Finne was the only author of a GUI system who responded
to my question.
> The situation is far from satisfactory. Plenty of
> space for people to make their mark. A big part of the problem is that
> it's a *lot* of work to implement such a system.
That's why we don't do it ourself ;-)
Olaf
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