On Wed, 29 May 2013 22:54:54 +1000
john skaller
wrote:
> Isn't a set of basic widgets too low level as well?
Well, that's another topic for itself. :-)
> Oh, OpenGL could make some pretty impressive graphics!
> Views of constellations, motions of planets.
Indeed, although we have to sort out m
On 29/05/2013, at 10:39 PM, Gour wrote:
> On Wed, 29 May 2013 00:56:36 +1000
> john skaller
> wrote:
>
>> no but HTML+JS+Webkit gives you OpenGL in a browser which is a lot
>> *better* than any desktop widgets :)
>
> Isn't OpenGL too low-level for average desktop app's needs?
Isn't a set of
On Wed, 29 May 2013 00:56:36 +1000
john skaller
wrote:
> no but HTML+JS+Webkit gives you OpenGL in a browser which is a lot
> *better* than any desktop widgets :)
Isn't OpenGL too low-level for average desktop app's needs?
> So c2ffi is bugged. And yes I have LLVM 3.3 built from SVN
> which is
On 28/05/2013, at 6:02 PM, Gour wrote:
>
> I'm aware of that possibility, but HTML+JS does not seem to me to be good/rich
> enough to replace 'desktop widget's. Maybe, for lot of purposes/apps, but not
> in
> my case.
no but HTML+JS+Webkit gives you OpenGL in a browser which is a lot
*better*
On 28/05/2013, at 6:02 PM, Gour wrote:
>
> I'm aware of that possibility, but HTML+JS does not seem to me to be good/rich
> enough to replace 'desktop widget's. Maybe, for lot of purposes/apps, but not
> in
> my case.
no but HTML+JS+Webkit gives you OpenGL in a browser which is a lot
*better*
On Tue, 28 May 2013 17:16:12 +1000
john skaller
wrote:
> I am not a marketer.
Sure. ;)
> If anything .. I'm a negative influence .. tendancy to rant may be noticed
> :->
Nothing serious noticed here. :-)
> I'm the core dev. I'm the userbase as well. However its my "life work" so I do
> a lot
On 28/05/2013, at 5:23 AM, Gour wrote:
>
> 15 years? That's a lot.
>
> How is it that the language, afaict, haven't caught more users?
I am not a marketer. Any language requires a core support team to
have a chance of snowballing. And good docs. Languages like
Rust do well because it is suppor
On 28/05/2013, at 5:23 AM, Gour wrote:
>
> 15 years? That's a lot.
>
> How is it that the language, afaict, haven't caught more users?
I am not a marketer. Any language requires a core support team to
have a chance of snowballing. And good docs. Languages like
Rust do well because it is suppor
On Tue, 28 May 2013 04:53:11 +1000
john skaller
wrote:
> As my knowledge of Nimrod is limited to a couple of brief
> readings of the manual, my comments below may be quite uninformed.
> Apologies to Nimrod devs if I get anything completely wrong.
No problem for me...
> Nimrod resembles Python i
On Tue, 28 May 2013 03:15:31 +1000
john skaller
wrote:
> The desire is not surprising but the ability limited.
Heh...well put together. ;)
> I think this is something you can pick up with some patience.
It's true, but the GUI issue remains, iow. there are gtk2hs and wxhaskell.
Former simply su
On 28/05/2013, at 3:15 AM, john skaller wrote:
>
>> When I asked about it in #nimrod, they reply was that Nimrod is further
>> developed with better GC.
>
> Lol. Felix is WAY ahead of Nimrod.
As my knowledge of Nimrod is limited to a couple of brief
readings of the manual, my comments below may
On 28/05/2013, at 12:57 AM, Gour wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I'm looking for some statically typed programming language to be used for
> writing multi-platform desktop application and for various reasons I want to
> avoid C(++).
The desire is not surprising but the ability limited.
> Tried with Haskel
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