On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 11:08 PM, Heinrich Apfelmus
Dear Haskellers,
Can GUI programming be liberated from the IO monad? Functional Reactive Programming (FRP) promises as much, and I'm trying to make this dream a reality with my [reactive-banana][] library. Having released version 0.4.0.0, I am now looking for example programs to direct the future evolution of the library.
Do you know any *small GUI programs* that you would *like* to see *implemented with Functional Reactive Programming?*
I'm sure that some of you
* are interested in FRP and would like to learn from a few simple but beautiful examples * or have written small GUI programs that they are unhappy with because they were not purely functional * or have thought about FRP before and concocted a few examples that are very tricky to implement with FRP * or have written a nice little GUI application that simply makes a great example.
I would love to hear your examples, so that I can try to convert them to FRP style and test my library against them!
How about a GUI for darcs? As someone who remains largely uninterested in FRP, I think it's mainly because toy examples can be done in many different styles without too much trouble. Even if the style itself is not very nice. I guess what I'm saying is that I would find "real-world" examples more compelling. Things that are substantial programs that require performance analysis, UI design work, etc. Maybe you can make an example that convinces me :) More and more things are moving to the cloud these days. Can you make a web app using FRP? Jason