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Subject: RE: [Caml-list] Re: OCaml vs Ada and/or GUI options

Adrien Nader:
> I've been meaning to work on GTK+3 support lablgtk for a while but each t=
ime I look at it, it's a lot of work.

My advice would be to forget about using OCaml's FFI to interop with Linux'=
 GUI libraries and focus instead on writing a new GUI library from scratch =
in OCaml using OpenGL.

Objectively, OCaml is extremely good for GUI programming. You've already go=
t libraries to load TrueType fonts and tessellate/rasterize them. OpenGL ma=
kes it easy to render anything with excellent performance. LablGL even make=
s picking (i.e. mouse clicks) easy. The result would be cross platform.

Cheers,
Jon.