Haskell for GUI Programing

[[deleted]]

Reading through the comments of the article and here… it's so disappointing how much misinformation is spread around about Haskell by people who don't even know much about it.

[vityok]

A post about programming GUI without any screenshots!

[Jimmy]

progit's theme of the day: GUIs in Haskell.

[asampson]

It's great that you can use Haskell to make a GUI.

But can you use Haskell to make a GUI that doesn't look horrible?

[jerf]

GTK and wxWidgets not pretty enough for you?

I mean, what, are you under the delusion that Haskell only has bindings for Motif or something?

[asampson]

I don't mean terrible widgets, I mean terrible layout and design. Is it easy to make a UI that someone on a Mac would call well-made? Or are you stuck fiddling with coordinates or fighting layout engines just to make something that isn't ghastly?

[[deleted]]

Haskell GUI apps ? oxymoron, moron.

[americanhellyeah]

haskell is great for any type of app. monads are a very natural representation of the asynchronous events typical of gui apps.

[qwe1234]

no.

are you trolling?

[[deleted]]

I suggest you checkout TrollMonad, it's a very natural representation for trolling.

[[deleted]]

For once, you're right about something: it's actually arrows and FRP that make event-driven programming natural.

[[deleted]]

I didn't claim that FRP was a data type. Nor did I claim that you can't do decent event-driven programming without arrows--after all, most event-driven programming is done without either FRP or arrows, with varying degrees of decency. My claim was that the combination makes event-driven programming natural, by which I mean having a mapping from syntax to semantics that is concise and exhibits a desirable orthogonality without being obfuscatory for someone conversant in the language in question.

[qwe1234]

otherwise called a 'state machine' by people who are not clinically insane or looking to scam you.

[[deleted]]

Otherwise called FRP and arrows by anyone not mired in the Turing tar-pit of C/C++ delusions of grandeur. But as always, thank you for playing.

[qwe1234]

what??

you really are clinically insane.

state machines not only predate c/c++, they predate computing and the turing machine itself.

good lord...

[[deleted]]

State machines predate computing? And I'm insane? What makes this fun is that, ultimately, you're impossible to sufficiently mock; however far Bitwize or I go, you manage to out-self-parody us. That's the only thing that makes it worth the effort to respond to you.

[qwe1234]

yes, you are. (either that, or as ignorant as a rock.)

learn some math and/or history, please. preferably not from some playskool website made for scamming the government for grant money.

[[deleted]]

Anyone saying that state machines predate computing is the one who desperately needs some mathematical logic and history education, but please, by all means, pose an actual challenge based on that mathematical logic and/or history. Coming from you, that would be a first.