Brandon S Allbery KF8NH
On 7/3/10 05:57 , Andrew Coppin wrote:
Agreed. So let me rephrase: Why should _every_ Haskell library involve C? ;-)
Who says they do, or should? AFAIK it's only done for the reasons I mentioned (or, sometimes, for library compatibility; a native XCB library has been considered, for example, but it wouldn't share state with the XCB used by OpenGL, WxWindows, or gtk2hs (to name a few) so might have interoperability problems). When possible pure Haskell is preferred, but there's a lot of complex libraries out there that one should not try to rewrite. Yes, i agree.
Let us make a GTK + example, why some popular languages such as Java, Python does not rewrite the GTK+? I think the key is not which language is best language to rewrite those *complex* library, the key is we need work together! That's why Haskell build FFI to work with other language. -- Andy