[Haskell-cafe] I still cannot seem to get a GUI working under Windows.

[aditya siram]

I imagine that getting Haskell GUI libraries set and playing nice with
the native GTK libs is a pain on Windows.

That said, I know that Haskell has very nice Lua bindings and Lua has
pretty mature GTK bindings. Has anyone tried developing their UI in
Lua with Haskell doing all the heavy lifting?

-deech

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Steve Schafer <steve at fenestra.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 20:08:07 +0200, you wrote:
>
>>I think the problem is lack of Windows developers interested in GUIs,
>>and that Windows is not so POSIXy-development-friendly as Linux or OS
>>X. But mostly lack of people interested in that area, I think.
>
> There are lots of Windows developers "interested" in GUIs. On the whole,
> I'd say that Windows developers are far more focused on GUIs than
> non-Windows developers. (See, for example:
>
>  http://mpt.net.nz/archive/2008/08/01/free-software-usability
>
> and
>
>  http://daringfireball.net/2004/04/spray_on_usability
>
> for some discussion of attitudes.)
>
> The issue isn't that there aren't a lot of Windows developers who have
> an interest in Haskell+GUI development. The issue is that nearly every
> Windows developer who looks into Haskell+GUI says, "This stuff sucks,"
> and walks away, because they're interested in developing applications,
> not wrestling with GUI toolkits.
>
> -Steve Schafer
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