Talk:Applications and libraries/GUI libraries

XHB

Is XHB really what the X11 section is about. Isn’t the X11 section about some classical X11 binding, not the XHB thing? Because I think, it is, I’ve removed the link to XHB.

If you think, I’m wrong then re-add it please. Otherwise maybe create a new section for XHB or do whatever fits.

-- Wolfgang Jeltsch 14:04, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

I don't believe it leaves a particularly good impression if new haskell users come here and the first ten libraries they click on are dead or dying and the really big and well-maintained libraries hide between the last remnants of a research paper. I have tried to look through the documentation (if still available) and tried to reclassify them. It would be nice to get comments and corrections. I won't replace the original page myself, since I am no real expert and would like to at least get a second opinion. Feel free to correct factual, spelling and grammar mistakes ... and any others you might find ;).

• Gtk2Hs and wxHaskell - If you want a working program that will still work in 5 years, use these.

• HTk - still recent and reasonably mature, but officially "orphanware", i.e. no longer actively developed.

• Grapefruit - seems to be actively developed and already quite well documented, still in the very early stages though

• proof of concepts, might develop into something big, might not:
  • GuiTV - closely tied to Phooey
  • Phooey
  • WxGeneric - successor of Autoforms
  • HQK - qt binding
  • qtHaskell - qt binding

• officially abandoned:
  • Gtk+Hs - use Gtk2Hs instead
  • iHaskell - based on Gtk+Hs
  • Autoforms - use WxGeneric instead

• not updated for at least 3 years:
  • ObjectIO - windows only
  • HToolKit - can't find a lot of infos, something about HSQL
  • FunctionalForms
  • Fudgets
  • FG

• long gone (> 6 years):
  • Pidgets - cannot find anything but a reference to a 13 year old paper.
  • Haggis really old
  • Gadgets - no info available
  • Embracing Windows - the oldest one I could find
  • Budgets () - all links are down
  • TclHaskell - really old
  • Fruit - seemingly abandoned research project
  • FranTK - really old
  • wxFruit - no official site, there used to exist a few forks, couldn't find anything except a new hackage upload of a very old version

• others:
  • HGL (6 years) - graphics library, no GUI!
  • GLFW - not a GUI, this is a replacement for GLUT

• Not enough info available:
  • nanocurses
  • hscurses
  • win32
  • x11