From: Yoann Padioleau <padator@wanadoo.fr>
To: Martin DeMello <martindemello@gmail.com>
Cc: OCaml List <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Desktop GUI toolkits - current state of the art?
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 15:28:58 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <299CA113-601F-4C96-B012-E092F14EEEE6@wanadoo.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinmdg+=NyumuqajsYfLHanmeo59E815DqWmWaPp@mail.gmail.com>
On Nov 23, 2010, at 6:19 AM, Martin DeMello wrote:
>
> What are the actively developed options for writing desktop GUI apps
> in OCaml? Anything other than lablgtk2 (which, at least from a brief
> look through the examples, looks rather ugly, codewise, compared to,
> say, vala or ruby/gtk)?
What is better looking in vala or ruby/gtk ?
> I'll use lablgtk2 in a pinch, but I'm curious
> as to whether anyone has been experimenting with toolkit bindings with
> an eye towards better syntax and APIs.
What you don't like in lablgtk ?
Something I definitely does not like with lablgtk are the type errors
(but I doubt ruby/gtk is better in that respect ...; I still prefer hard-to-read
type errors than no-type-checking).
>
> (Note that I don't care about a native look and feel, I'm more
> interested in how the code looks.)
>
> martin
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-23 23:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-23 14:19 Martin DeMello
2010-11-23 23:06 ` [Caml-list] " Jacques Garrigue
2010-11-24 9:33 ` Martin DeMello
2010-11-24 14:06 ` Michael Ekstrand
2010-11-24 15:56 ` Andrei Formiga
2010-11-23 23:28 ` Yoann Padioleau [this message]
2010-11-24 9:38 ` Martin DeMello
2010-11-26 19:09 ` Yoann Padioleau
2010-11-28 6:38 ` Martin DeMello
2010-11-28 7:40 ` Yoann Padioleau
2010-11-29 14:21 ` Martin DeMello
2010-11-23 23:32 ` Alain Frisch
2010-11-24 9:47 ` Martin DeMello
2010-11-24 15:57 ` Hezekiah M. Carty
2010-11-28 8:28 ` bluestorm
2010-11-28 22:20 ` Adrien
2010-11-29 13:20 ` Adrien
2010-11-29 14:02 ` Martin DeMello
2010-12-10 6:04 ` Maxence Guesdon
2010-11-29 16:47 ` Hezekiah M. Carty
2010-11-24 21:37 ` Alain Frisch
2010-11-24 22:32 ` Jeremy Yallop
2010-12-01 11:43 ` Alain Frisch
2010-11-24 10:21 ` Mihamina Rakotomandimby
2010-11-26 18:59 ` Richard Jones
2010-11-28 6:40 ` Martin DeMello
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