I imagine that getting Haskell GUI libraries set and playing nice with
the native GTK libs is a pain on Windows.
That said, I know that Haskell has very nice Lua bindings and Lua has
pretty mature GTK bindings. Has anyone tried developing their UI in
Lua with Haskell doing all the heavy lifting?
-deech
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Steve Schafer
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 20:08:07 +0200, you wrote:
I think the problem is lack of Windows developers interested in GUIs, and that Windows is not so POSIXy-development-friendly as Linux or OS X. But mostly lack of people interested in that area, I think.
There are lots of Windows developers "interested" in GUIs. On the whole, I'd say that Windows developers are far more focused on GUIs than non-Windows developers. (See, for example:
http://mpt.net.nz/archive/2008/08/01/free-software-usability
and
http://daringfireball.net/2004/04/spray_on_usability
for some discussion of attitudes.)
The issue isn't that there aren't a lot of Windows developers who have an interest in Haskell+GUI development. The issue is that nearly every Windows developer who looks into Haskell+GUI says, "This stuff sucks," and walks away, because they're interested in developing applications, not wrestling with GUI toolkits.
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