On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 12:01 -0500, aditya siram wrote:
> Thanks for this awesome video! I was unaware that the Caml compiler
> did not optimize source code before generating native code. Now I am a
> little less afraid to study the actual compiler!
> 
> Your point about a lack of  GUI libraries is great - however it seems
> as though they are not as important as they once were. The amazing
> javascript toolkits [1] that have sprung up over the last year (along
> with the Ocsigen and OBrower project [2]) have filled most of that
> vaccum.
> 
> As long as there are libraries that provide an easy way to hook up
> with a web client is there still a compelling reason to develop native
> GUI toolkits?
> 
> Regards
> -Aditya Siram
> 
> 

It is very easy to interface ocaml with an gui-toolkit like qt, living
in its own process. The communication is done via localhost/ http.

-Philip