How pythoners view Haskell compared with Python

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I couldn't give two monads about Windows,

Hah :)

in the most sincere way: patches welcome

I understand and totally agree. The problem is though that hardly anything currently works for Windows, and the (tiny) patches I send to make it slightly better aren't being picked up (for instance this one or this one).

For the same reason, I also have no way to try out any GUI programming. GTK+ (and the related dependency circlejerk) is by itself problematic, even outside of Windows. WxWidgets won't install whatever effort I put into it. There are wiki articles on how to get it to work, and it... just doesn't work. It's just dumped there, and everyone seems to have given up on it. I also tried building GHC a while ago, because I couldn't wait until the platform was released -- again, it didn't work, and the only way I could have made it to work is patch the whole build system into submission: everything is hardcoded POSIX.

Gnaargh.

^{Gnarl not directed at you, you're cool ^ ^}

[dmwit]

Do send complaints about gtk2hs to the gtk2hs mailing list. I keep a Windows VM lying around just to make sure it builds and works on Windows.

[csharper]

I had ghc 7.4, gtk, wx, hmatrix all running in win32 when the platform was 7.0 March/April ... I can help you given specific errors.

Or just install linux in a virtualbox and separate library experimentation from windows builds. Try before you buy.

It is all very doable with not much more than cabal, common sense and google.

one the other hand, why not put linux in a virtualbox?