On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 12:14 AM, David Pollak
<feeder.of.the.bears@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Mark Wotton
<mwotton@gmail.com> wrote:
What model are you thinking of?
Ideally, I'd like to do as much coding in Haskell as possible. Even when I wrote Mesa (
http://www.plsys.co.uk/mesa.htm ) back in the day, I used as much C++ (of the then-available Objective-C++) as I could for type safety and performance. I used the Objective-C stuff for UI and for external APIs (to avoid the C++ fragility). Going back to Obj-C and seeing how it has not progressed materially since 1994 when I last spent time with it makes me want to use it even less (wow... this is turning into a full-blown rant against Obj-C... sorry for offending the Obj-C lovers in the audience.) So, my goal is to have as much of my code as possible in Haskell with very thin layers for bridging to IB.
Sure, that's a given, but are you thinking of a thin obj-c skin for the GUI code calling haskell to do the heavy lifting, or of having haskell know the intimate details of the cocoa apis and managing window composition etc itself?
merits to both, i guess. in my highly uneducated opinion, i think HOC might have tried to do too much - it had a lot of interesting stuff in there but was usually a bear to get working.
mark