[Haskell-cafe] looking for ongoing Haskell projects ..

[Vo Minh Thu]

2014-10-19 19:50 GMT+02:00 Mateusz Kowalczyk <fuuzetsu at fuuzetsu.co.uk>:
> On 10/19/2014 02:11 PM, Henk-Jan van Tuyl wrote:
>> On Sun, 19 Oct 2014 08:31:55 +0200, Vasili I. Galchin
>> <vigalchin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Fellow Haskellers,
>>>
>>>       I was just reading at http://www.haskell.org. I am looking for a
>>> list
>>> of currently active Haskell projects needing help .. :-)
>>>
>>> Vasili
>>
>>
>> wxHaskell[0] could use your support very well, I hope others will join in
>> as well. wxHaskell can be used for both game and serious software, but
>> could use more support.
>>
>>
>> What is it?
>> -----------
>
> I hope you don't mind me hijacking this thread a bit for few questions.
>
>> wxHaskell is a portable and native GUI library for Haskell. The goal of
>> the project is to provide an industrial strength GUI library for Haskell,
>> but without the burden of developing (and maintaining) one ourselves.
>>
>> wxHaskell is therefore built on top of wxWidgets – a comprehensive C++
>> library that is portable across all major GUI platforms; including GTK,
>> Windows, X11, and MacOS X. Furthermore, it is a mature library (in
>> development since 1992) that supports a wide range of widgets with the
>> native look-and-feel.
>> The wxHaskell project[0] could use more participants.
>
> I'm a bit confused: you say it's a native GUI library but then say it's
> built on top of a C++ library.
> [snip]

I think native in this context refer to the graphical elements being
the ones native to the OS, not native as in pure Haskell
implementation.

Cheers,
Thu