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Re:The Elm Architecture by wz1000 on Monday February 16, 2015 @10:10PM (#9060476)
Haskell with an FRP library may work for what you want to do. Reactive-banana looks good, though I haven't used it.
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Re:The Elm Architecture by photex on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @03:28AM (#9061184)
The trouble though comes about once you have to start working with a UI library. It's a mess and a half unless you use C++. I'd like to try using Elm, or Purescript for UI work using atom-shell or nw.js. That opens almost the same can of worms (how easy it might be to 'bind' your engine to your UI/view). I've written a non-trivial application using QtWebkit entirely for the UI and it was a very agreeable experience. The engine of this app was C++ but it got my gears turning.
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Re:The Elm Architecture by pjmlp on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @04:13AM (#9061306)
Actually that I my opinion from any web based UI, a mess of JavaScript/CSS trickery and HTML.

Native UI development feels so much more advanced and user friendly.

Saying this as a UX developer since the mid-90's.

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Re:The Elm Architecture by photex on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @07:40AM (#9061872)
My comment was in reference to using native toolkits from a language other than C++ and not the status of using native toolkits in general. <friendly-joke>I have a hard time believing that you've been using native UI toolkits using Haskell since the mid-90s.</friendly-joke> :)
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Re:The Elm Architecture by pjmlp on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @08:06AM (#9061963)
No, but I was using Turbo Pascal followed by Delphi. Also played with C++ Builder, but by then Visual C++ had taken over as Borland was going through their Inprise phase.
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Re:The Elm Architecture by phamilton on Monday February 16, 2015 @10:18PM (#9060490)
I'll echo this. Elm was a bit of a gateway drug for me getting into Haskell. Haskell itself has a lot of very powerful tools.
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Re:The Elm Architecture by platz on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @12:30AM (#9060806)
This post builds the intuition for something like the Netwire library

http://blog.jle.im/entry/effectful-recursive-real-world-auto...

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