Michael Vanier wrote:
aditya siram wrote:
Yes Haskell is not strong on the GUI end of things but have you considered turning your desktop app into a web app? I've done this for a few things and really enjoyed the process. Haskell's STM is what makes this so nice.
This is a great idea! IMO this is also one of the main ways that GUI-based apps are likely to evolve into in the future. Cross-platform GUIs are a pain in the butt in _any_ language (possibly excluding full language platforms like Java/.NET, and I'll bet even those were a nightmare for the original implementors).
This is a bad idea! :) As a long term Mac user, I have a strong dislike for web applications that try to be desktop applications. Sagemath is probably an example in point. Not only are the well-designed standard GUI elements thrown out of the window (the menu bar, it belongs at the top), it's also sluggish to navigate between pages, doesn't support drag & drop from other applications and most importantly, doesn't play nice with local files.
From the programmers point of view, I don't want to code my GUI in Javascript either, I want to do it in Haskell.
Regards, Heinrich Apfelmus -- http://apfelmus.nfshost.com