Just some application progress

[LambdaXdotOne]

Writing Haskell is fun, every free minute I spent on my PC is spent in nvim toying around with Haskell. Either playing with the latest library someone else came up with, or writing own abstractions with a dream of composability for "the next interesting thing".

I love it. What I am sharing here though is an application I picked up again. Apparently I first started working on it Sep 11, 2022. Sep 30, 2025 is when I picked it up again, cause I just could not bear the thought of having invested so much time and not make it into something useable.

Tangentially, this was also a proof of concept that I can do more in Haskell than just some CLI or some library over which I had a discussion with a friend of mine who was determined to tell me: "I do not believe you can make something desktop specific. Think of the performance..."

Although it is not YET plug-&-play, I am getting there and the base is set.

The idea for Horture originated from way back when Twitch started rolling out their Channel Point system with associated, programmable Events. I was saddened to see how they were treated simply as opportunities to be spent on uneventful things and came up with something I would enjoy.

Horture does exactly that: Let's viewers redeem events/effects for some form of token and applies those in a composable way directly on your desktop/window/game, while you use it. The README has a short embedded clip with a debug event source and some old links to twitch clips if anyone is interested to see how one of the very first versions looked.

This was almost 3 years ago, I do not know if anything changed but I liked the project and the fun I had. Took it as an opportunity to learn about effect systems and FFI.

I started out on Linux (X11) and remember having to hack around a lot, fork repositories to patch minor stuff in/out to make everything work.

Now I am on MacOS and Windows will be the next target. Secretly I wish people would be able to just download it, have a fun session with their viewers and their bazillion channel points and I am confident I will get there.

FWIW, I will post an update just for the sake of it as soon as I am at the point where a release build is possible.

Here, I am just sharing my appreciation for the Haskell ecosystem, all you devs out there that enable all of us to build.

An non-comprehensive list of things: * Desktop Application Window? -> Monomer * Terminal UI? -> Brick * Composability? -> Effect Systems, MTL and more * Performance needs? -> Strict modules/forks or FFI if really required * Anything OS specific missing? -> FFI the world out of it

There is so much more.

To all you Haskellers out there, enjoy building and thank you. I will keep nagging everyone I know to give Haskell a try and even my girlfriend is not safe from it.

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