[Haskell-beginners] Selecting a GUI toolkit

Felipe Lessa felipe.lessa at gmail.com
Wed Apr 29 18:33:25 EDT 2009


If I were to write one right now (and I might actually need in a
few days), I'd use Gtk2Hs.

Cons:
 - Does not fit Haskell's style.
 - Very imperative, everything in IO.

Pros:
 - Terrific binding: (almost) complete, working, tested.
 - Multi-platform (as far as Gtk itself is).
 - If you need, reading Gtk's C docs is straightforward.
 - Seamless integration with Cairo (yay!).
 - ... (probably more)

I already used Gtk on other languages before Haskell, though, so
I'm somewhat biased.

--
Felipe.


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