On 11/16/06, Eric Willigers
Bulat Ziganshin
writes: Hello haskell-cafe,
afaik, there are just two good enough libs - wxHaskell and GtkHs. can anyone point (or write) detailed comparison of their features? i plan to write large GUI program in Haskell and want to select best one.
Putting aside issues of completeness and the availability of particular components **, how have people found the Functional Reactive approach used by Fruit or FranTk? The example code for each looks very appealing.
** Suppose FranTk had been written or generated with Gtk2Hs or wxHaskell as the underlying library instead of Tk.
Personally I find all of that stuff really cool in a geeky sort of way, but for unclear reasons it just doesn't "feel" all that useful for real-world stuff. It just seems a bit too "heavy" to use, to the point where I prefer a much more low level but straightforward approach (using a thin wrapper on top of imperative libraries). I'm sorry I can't explain better, but I do think it's a promising area for research. /S -- Sebastian Sylvan +46(0)736-818655 UIN: 44640862