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Desktop GUI toolkits - current state of the art?

Martin DeMello
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Date:	2010-12-01 (11:43)
From:	Alain Frisch <alain.frisch@l...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Desktop GUI toolkits - current state of the art?

On 11/24/2010 10:47 AM, Martin DeMello wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 5:02 AM, Alain Frisch<alain.frisch@lexifi.com>  wrote:
>> We have a few local extensions to the OCaml compiler that makes it easier to
>> build nice APIs for GUI toolkits, with a functional flavor: implicit
>> subtyping and generalized recursion. Hopefully, I'll be able to blog about
>> these extensions and how they are used for GUI programming some day.
>
> I'd love to read that when you do. I was surprised not to see much
> interest in GUI DSLs in OCaml. What is generalised recursion?

FWIW, I've blogged about our extensions related to laziness:

https://www.lexifi.com/blog/ocaml-extensions-lexifi-semi-implicit-laziness

-- Alain