The future of Haskell discussion / GUIs

[Manuel M. T. Chakravarty]

Johannes Waldmann <joe@isun.informatik.uni-leipzig.de> wrote,

> Manuel:
> 
> > ... Functional GUIs like
> > Fruit are from a research perspective very interesting, but
> > their design is rather far from being a solved problem,
> > which makes them a not very likely candidate for a standard
> > that people seem to like to have sooner rather than later.
> 
> just to voice a slightly differnt opinion: 
> I worked with FranTk a bit and found it quite easy to handle.
> There are some technical problems maybe,
> but they do not come from the design but rather from using Tcl/Tk.
> The design itself is rather abstract (that's the very intention),
> and is not tied to one particular backend.

Hmm, I didn't mention FranTk in the cited paragraph.  Fruit
and FranTk are rather different.

Manuel