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Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 23:17:37 +0100
From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rich@annexia.org>
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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: OCaml vs Ada and/or GUI options

On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 09:06:05PM +0100, Jon Harrop wrote:
> 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 got libraries to load TrueType fonts and tessellate/rasterize
> them. OpenGL makes it easy to render anything with excellent
> performance. LablGL even makes picking (i.e. mouse clicks) easy. The
> result would be cross platform.

Hmm.  Then someone wants to enter text in Chinese, and someone else
needs to use their speech reader, and so on.  Good luck reimplementing
the whole of Gtk.

Rich.

-- 
Richard Jones
Red Hat