[Haskell-cafe] Re: libraries [was GUI haters]

2010-04-06 Thread Heinrich Apfelmus
aditya siram wrote: Cocoa is probably the best GUI toolkit (open-source or otherwise) that I've seen. However it ties your app to the Mac (and the iPhone). And I don't believe there is a mature Haskell bridge. There is hoc http://code.google.com/p/hoc/ but it's not on hackage and seems a

[Haskell-cafe] Re: libraries [was GUI haters]

2010-04-06 Thread Heinrich Apfelmus
Jean-Denis Koeck wrote: Question to the Mac users on the list: do you find that Qt applications feel native enough on your platform ? If not, any tips ? Well, that depends on your definition of enough. :) The most important thing is probably that cross platform applications always look

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: libraries [was GUI haters]

2010-04-05 Thread aditya siram
Cocoa is probably the best GUI toolkit (open-source or otherwise) that I've seen. However it ties your app to the Mac (and the iPhone). And I don't believe there is a mature Haskell bridge. Cross-platform GUI's like GTK don't look as nice but functions pretty well for what they do. Unfortunately

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: libraries [was GUI haters]

2010-04-05 Thread Jean-Denis Koeck
I'm building a desktop application using Haskell for the logic and Qt/C++ for the GUI (the haskell source is foreign-exported into a shared library). It's been hard to pull off, but it works quite well when you get past the compilation issues. Question to the Mac users on the list: do you find

[Haskell-cafe] Re: libraries [was GUI haters]

2010-04-03 Thread Heinrich Apfelmus
Michael Vanier wrote: aditya siram wrote: Yes Haskell is not strong on the GUI end of things but have you considered turning your desktop app into a web app? I've done this for a few things and really enjoyed the process. Haskell's STM is what makes this so nice. This is a great idea! IMO