From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.0 required=5.0 tests=DNS_FROM_SECURITYSAGE autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36015BB84 for ; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 13:00:58 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: As0BAAZJHknUnw4Ugmdsb2JhbACCO5EdAQELCwgaA7o8gnk X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.33,610,1220220000"; d="scan'208";a="19213115" Received: from pih-relay08.plus.net ([212.159.14.20]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/AES256-SHA; 15 Nov 2008 13:00:32 +0100 Received: from [87.112.54.120] (helo=leper.local) by pih-relay08.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1L1JpH-00066z-Ke for caml-list@yquem.inria.fr; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 12:00:31 +0000 From: Jon Harrop Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] What does Jane Street use/want for an IDE? What about you? Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 13:02:53 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <200810200919.41561.ober.14@osu.edu> <200811050548.41693.jon@ffconsultancy.com> <200811051020.27633.ober.14@osu.edu> In-Reply-To: <200811051020.27633.ober.14@osu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200811151302.53813.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Plusnet-Relay: 61e29e6b27b51e49c34d3a902ffb230d X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 ocaml:01 renderer:01 frog:98 caml-list:01 graphics:02 opengl:03 programming:03 programming:03 gui:03 gui:03 031:95 msn:95 parallel:05 implementing:06 We were discussing GUI programming in OCaml recently. I just stumbled upon this video "wpf graphics" that demonstrates some of the capabilities of Microsoft's Windows Presentation Foundation: http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=0bcf031b-4213-48ef-adff-0e60f8dbce4b Linux has nothing like this. If OCaml gets a parallel GC then I think it would be well worth implementing an alternative GUI toolkit from scratch in OCaml using OpenGL and drawing upon WPF's core design that centers around a single unified renderer and unified (and safe!) representation. OCaml has great potential for GUI programming... -- Dr Jon Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/?e