I imagine that getting Haskell GUI libraries set and playing nice with the native GTK libs is a pain on Windows.
That said, I know that Haskell has very nice Lua bindings and Lua has pretty mature GTK bindings. Has anyone tried developing their UI in Lua with Haskell doing all the heavy lifting? -deech On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Steve Schafer <st...@fenestra.com> wrote: > On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 20:08:07 +0200, you wrote: > >>I think the problem is lack of Windows developers interested in GUIs, >>and that Windows is not so POSIXy-development-friendly as Linux or OS >>X. But mostly lack of people interested in that area, I think. > > There are lots of Windows developers "interested" in GUIs. On the whole, > I'd say that Windows developers are far more focused on GUIs than > non-Windows developers. (See, for example: > > http://mpt.net.nz/archive/2008/08/01/free-software-usability > > and > > http://daringfireball.net/2004/04/spray_on_usability > > for some discussion of attitudes.) > > The issue isn't that there aren't a lot of Windows developers who have > an interest in Haskell+GUI development. 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. > > -Steve Schafer > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe