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So here's my (perhaps slightly provoking) question: do we need to care at all about good GUI toolkits being available? Web applications, especially with an HTML 5 front-end, have become increasingly more powerful. If we can also find a good, standardized way to generate JS from our Haskell code, we're pretty much all set.
That isn't so controversial - do we need to care about good GUI toolkits being available? Evidently not, we can say that from the fact that we're still looking for GUI support on the Mac in 2011. The Web application idea might be a useful workaround for some, like X11 may be acceptable for others, but these could be thought of as exceptions that prove the rule. If that's enough to solve the problem, then there would appear to be little call for Mac GUI applications. My only Haskell application on my ancient PPC Mac uses the terminal, but long ago I tried a Haskell Cocoa library, HOC, that would have supported native graphics, if it had worked for me. Has anyone taken that route with an application? I have been using native API graphics on another more obscure platform (Haiku), of course not portable but much easier to get working than the gigantic cross platform GUI toolkits, and maybe that would address the chicken vs egg problem that helps make Mac GUI apps a non-issue for Haskell. Donn