[Haskell-cafe] Why binding to existing widget toolkits doesn't make any sense

[Peter Verswyvelen]

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> So, if you don't mind, I'm going to stop trying to fit cubes into
> round holes and gonna use reactive and fieldtrip[4] to do things.


Yes exactly, these projects are an attempt to make reactive programming (and
GUI programming is one of these) much more composable.

However it is still unclear to me if these frameworks can fix the typical
space leaks that have been addressed in AFRP (e.g. Yampa) and also mentioned
in the Fruit paper. A nice discussion between Yampa and Reactive took place
in this list a while ago (see
http://www.nabble.com/Yampa-vs.-Reactive-td21045891.html)<http://www.nabble.com/Yampa-vs.-Reactive-td21045891.html>

So AFRP also tries to make reactive programming more composable, and already
succeeded somehow by showing working games and prototype guis, but the
arrows syntax takes away much of the elegance of Haskell (we're really
drawing boxes and links in Haskell here ;-) and research is still being done
to make it more scalable (push versus pull, see e.g.
http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/hl293/download/NEPLS-talk.pdf)<http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/hl293/download/NEPLS-talk.pdf>

To me, none of these approaches mean anything as long as we can't produce
real complex GUIs with it :-) I do hope that Haskell community will combine
efforts to make a practical reactive (and GUI) framework!



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> [1]http://softbase.org/hqk/qoo/qoo.pdf
> [2]
> http://haskell.org/gtk2hs/docs/devel/System-Glib-GObject.html#v%3AmakeNewGObject
> [3]Somewhat disregarding using OS widgets, but that's unimportant since
>   native look+feel is vastly overrated. I've got enough asbestos to
>   defend that against alt.politics.
> [4]Gotta get rid of glut, though.
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