[Haskell-cafe] "Best" FRP package for newbie

[Edward Amsden]

I got started in FRP with Yampa, and I currently "maintain" Animas,
which is a fork. AFAIK no one is really doing much with either
anymore. Yampa and Animas are both messy both in implementation and
the exposed interface. I did start with Yampa, but it was incredibly
frustrating because the abstraction is very leaky and thus things
often don't work as you'd expect. The only real changes to Animas are
the addition of some primitives for evaluation when you don't want a
tight loop.

I'm currently writing a Masters thesis on FRP which will hopefully
result in a much nicer signal function library, but of course you
don't want to wait that long. What I can offer though is to try to
answer any questions you might have as you're exploring FRP.

Netwire and reactive-banana both sound like good choices, though I
haven't really toyed much with either of them so I can't really make a
firm recommendation.

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 2:50 AM, Arnaud Bailly <arnaud.oqube at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I am interested in exploring more in depth FRP. I had a look at the wiki
> page and started to explore "reactive" which looked promising at first
> glance and backed by quite a few articles and tutorials, but 1) it did not
> install properly on my haskell platform and 2) from the mailing-list
> archives it seems to have died a couple of years ago.
>
> So my question is : What package would you recommend me to get my hands
> dirty with FRP? I am mostly interested in things related to music and
> network programming, if that matters.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help,
>
> Arnaud
>
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Edward Amsden
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