On 29 September 2010 20:33, Steve Schafer
There are lots of Windows developers "interested" in GUIs. [..]
The issue isn't that there aren't a lot of Windows developers who have an interest in Haskell+GUI development.
Yeah, what do you think I meant? We're talking about the state of Haskell GUI libraries, naturally I'm talking about Haskell GUI developers. Of course Windows developers are obsessed with GUIs, I can't get anything done in a terminal on Windows. (I'm exaggerating.)
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.
Yeah, but not liking wrestling with libraries isn't peculiar to Haskell developers. There just needs to be enough people that the probability of there being a person who will bother to wrestle with it is high enough. Hence, the issue is lack of interest.