[Haskell-cafe] Status of Haskell + Mac + GUIs & graphics

[Michael Snoyman]

Along the same lines, once or twice I've needed to create a "desktop"
version of a web app, which is what I wrote wai-handler-webkit[1] for.
It only really builds properly on Linux for now, but if the need
arises I don't see any reason it wouldn't work for Mac/Windows as
well.

Michael

[1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/wai-handler-webkit

2011/5/18 Jurriën Stutterheim <j.stutterheim at me.com>:
> A few weeks ago I set out to build a GUI app using wxHaskell. Long story short, we ditched the entire idea of a desktop GUI and went for a web application instead, because it was easier to develop a front-end for it and it was easier to style it.
> So here's my (perhaps slightly provoking) question: do we need to care at all about good GUI toolkits being available? Web applications, especially with an HTML 5 front-end, have become increasingly more powerful. If we can also find a good, standardized way to generate JS from our Haskell code, we're pretty much all set.
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> Jurriën
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> On 18 May, 2011, at 08:29 , Tom Murphy wrote:
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>>> I still haven't found any way to do GUIs or interactive graphics in Haskell
>>> on a Mac that isn't plagued one or more of the following serious problems:
>>>
>>> * Incompatible with ghci, e.g., fails to make a window frame or kills the
>>> process the second time one opens a top-level window,
>>> * Goes through the X server, and so doesn't look or act like a Mac app,
>>> * Doesn't support OpenGL.
>>>
>>
>>     If there doesn't currently exist something without these
>> handicaps, that's a serious problem for the use of Haskell for
>> developing end-user software.
>>     If we as a community want to be able to develop software for
>> end-users (i.e. people who'll be thrown off by gtk widgets or x11
>> windows)*, then it would be a very good idea to focus our energies on
>> one or two promising pre-existing libraries, and hammer them into
>> completion. A roadmap for this could be worked on at Hac Phi?
>>
>> Just my 2¢,
>> Tom
>>
>> *This, of course, would NOT be avoiding success at all costs. :)
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