I'm building a desktop application using Haskell for the logic and Qt/C++ for the GUI(the haskell source is foreign-exported into a shared library).
It's been hard to pull off, but it works quite well when you get past the compilation issues.
Question to the Mac users on the list: do you find that Qt applications
feel "native enough" on your platform ? If not, any tips ?
2010/4/3 Heinrich Apfelmus
<apfelmus@quantentunnel.de>
Michael Vanier wrote:
> aditya siram wrote:
>> Yes Haskell is not strong on the GUI end of things but have you
>> considered turning your desktop app into a web app? I've done this
>> for a few things and really enjoyed the process. Haskell's STM is
>> what makes this so nice.
>
> This is a great idea! IMO this is also one of the main ways that
> GUI-based apps are likely to evolve into in the future. Cross-platform
> GUIs are a pain in the butt in _any_ language (possibly excluding full
> language platforms like Java/.NET, and I'll bet even those were a
> nightmare for the original implementors).
This is a bad idea! :) As a long term Mac user, I have a strong dislike
for web applications that try to be desktop applications. Sagemath is
probably an example in point. Not only are the well-designed standard
GUI elements thrown out of the window (the menu bar, it belongs at the
top), it's also sluggish to navigate between pages, doesn't support drag
& drop from other applications and most importantly, doesn't play nice
with local files.
>From the programmers point of view, I don't want to code my GUI in
Javascript either, I want to do it in Haskell.
Regards,
Heinrich Apfelmus
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