From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: 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 92E11BCB5 for ; Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:29:01 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AisEANDc60xQDPIugGdsb2JhbACUNY41FQEBCwsKBRMDH6QYmh6FSwSEWg X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.59,244,1288566000"; d="scan'208";a="67931186" Received: from smtp21.orange.fr ([80.12.242.46]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 24 Nov 2010 00:29:01 +0100 Received: from me-wanadoo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf2129.orange.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id ACF821C000A8; Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:29:00 +0100 (CET) Received: from me-wanadoo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf2129.orange.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 9E8621C000AD; Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:29:00 +0100 (CET) Received: from haoxu-mbp.thefacebook.com (out1-1601fw.corp.tfbnw.net [66.220.144.27]) by mwinf2129.orange.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id DBCBB1C000A8; Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:28:59 +0100 (CET) X-ME-UUID: 20101123232859900.DBCBB1C000A8@mwinf2129.orange.fr X-ME-User-Auth: padator@wanadoo.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Desktop GUI toolkits - current state of the art? Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1081) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Yoann Padioleau In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 15:28:58 -0800 Cc: OCaml List Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <299CA113-601F-4C96-B012-E092F14EEEE6@wanadoo.fr> References: To: Martin DeMello X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1081) X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 lablgtk:01 gtk:01 gtk:01 lablgtk:01 bindings:01 syntax:01 beginner's:01 ocaml:01 bug:01 23,:98 beginners:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 caml-list:01 On Nov 23, 2010, at 6:19 AM, Martin DeMello wrote: >=20 > 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). >=20 > (Note that I don't care about a native look and feel, I'm more > interested in how the code looks.) >=20 > martin >=20 > _______________________________________________ > Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: > http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list > Archives: http://caml.inria.fr > Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners > Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs >=20