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Desktop GUI toolkits - current state of the art?

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From:	Martin DeMello <martindemello@g...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Desktop GUI toolkits - current state of the art?

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 4:58 AM, Yoann Padioleau <padator@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>
> What is better looking in vala or ruby/gtk ?
>
> What you don't like in lablgtk ?

Both ruby and vala make an effort to provide nice syntactic support
for gtk code, so that it looks like a natural part of the language.
The OCaml code from the gtk2 tutorial looks very C-ish, whereas I was
hoping for something closer to a GUI DSL. Jacques Garrigue has pointed
out that there is actually both a low-level and a high-level API, so
I've probably just been put off by the low-level code.

martin