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Salah Eddine Taouririt
Salah Eddine Taouririt

Reputation: 26465

Is anyone use SML or OCaml for building real world GUI?

After looking at some OCaml graphics related projects it seems that no one using it for building GUI.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 787

Answers (3)

rixed
rixed

Reputation: 96

Many people these days consider that the only GUI "library" that's not outdated is the Web. Whatever your stance on that matter, it's good to know that web is a portable alternative to traditional GUI, and that there are very serious libraries and tools available to program for the web with OCaml (from Ocsigen to Ocamlnet).

Upvotes: 1

rgrinberg
rgrinberg

Reputation: 9878

I don't think you will find recent GUI bindings on the old OCaml website. As a rule of thumb, you should consider anything not available through OPAM as outdated. The most "mature" and "wall-supported" bindings for OCaml seem to be LablGtk found here: http://lablgtk.forge.ocamlcore.org/

Upvotes: 1

Jeffrey Scofield
Jeffrey Scofield

Reputation: 66823

My colleagues and I use OCaml to build iOS apps that we sell. Everything is coded in OCaml, including the GUI. However, making a full OCaml binding to Cocoa Touch would be a very large undertaking, so we concentrate on building the parts that we need. It's definitely possible (and in fact enjoyable) to use OCaml for building real-world GUIs, but to get a really convenient environment would take some serious backing or a pretty big community effort. (If you're interested in our efforts, follow the link in my profile.)

Upvotes: 3

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