[Haskell-cafe] Tetris

[Jules Bean]

Peter Verswyvelen wrote:
> Yes indeed, and various implementations of GLUT on Windows have 
> different quirks.
> 
> The biggest lack of GLUT is its inability to load images...
> 
> IMHO if you want to do OpenGL with Haskell, it's best to start with 
> Gtk2HS anyway, which has all the support needed.


..at the cost of being less portable, since it doesn't run "natively" on 
OSX, requiring the X layer which not all users will have installed. 
Swings and roundabouts.

OSX-native Gtk is not that far away though.

But, that's certainly one of the reasons I'm using plain GLUT at the moment.

Jules