Re: [Caml-list] Cocoa bindings (again)

[James Woodyatt <jhwoodyatt@mac.com>]

On Jul 20, 2006, at 11:34 AM, Paul Snively wrote:
>
> In and of itself, nothing; I just like the FRP approach to GUI  
> programming, so I see an opportunity to kill two birds with one stone:
>
> 1) Provide O'Caml a nice FRP framework.

At the risk of engaging in more than my fair share of self-promotion,  
I should point out that the OCaml NAE I/O Reactor library I just  
released is an FRP framework.  It's pretty spare at the moment and  
needs a lot of additions.  Also, I didn't write it with graphical  
user interfaces in mind-- the goal was a good framework for single- 
threaded multiplexing network application servers.  (The acronym  
"NAE" stands for 'Network Application Environment'.)

	<http://sf.net/projects/ocnae/>

The Yampa framework doesn't strike me as appropriate for building a  
GUI.  I suspect such a GUI toolkit would offer highly underwhelming  
performance characteristics.  I could be wrong about that, and would  
welcome such a surprise, but that's what my unscientific guess tells me.

> 2) Provide O'Caml a nice GUI framework that doesn't suffer the  
> vagaries of the usual OO GUI frameworks.

For my own part, I plan to do all my GUI work in Cocoa with native  
Objective-C.  A more useful addition to the OCaml HUMP, I argue,  
would be bindings for CoreData.

	<http://developer.apple.com/macosx/coredata.html>

At some point, if no one else has done it first, I will get around to  
doing it myself.  Don't anybody hold their breath waiting for it,  
though... I have a lot of hobby projects these days, what with a day  
job and a 6-month old baby in the house.


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j h woodyatt <jhw@conjury.org>