Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskellers hate GUIs!!

Stephen Tetley disse:

On 2 April 2010 17:53, Dominic Espinosa wrote:

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I ended up rewriting it in another language (due to time pressure) and I'm a little wary of attempting to use Haskell again for developing such an application.

Hi Dominic

Out of curiosity what language did you choose instead?

Each time a thread comes up on the Cafe documenting GUI woes, I always wonder if Python or other languages[*] have such problems and if not why not.

For better or worse python interpreter comes with Tk. So, if you develop your application to use Tk, as ugly as it may look, it will work in every platform supported by the python interpreter. However, if you want to use pygtk, you still have to install gtk runtime. When using haskell, can't you just make a static binary on MacOS and Windows, though? Why wouldn't that work?