gloss
Painless 2D vector graphics, animations and simulations. (by benl23x5)
nanovg
NanoVG Haskell bindings (by cocreature)
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
gloss
Posts with mentions or reviews of gloss.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-18.
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Are there more elegant languages for generative art and creative coding?
Haskell is the purest of the pure, and a fun language. Never done graphics with it but I see Gloss looks decent - https://github.com/benl23x5/gloss.
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Can't install WxHaskell on Windows
If you just want to draw stuff on a window, then have a look at gloss (a very simple yet useful interface to OpenGL) and sdl2 (which gives bindings to the SDL library).
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Using gloss on Windows
This question is in the gloss FAQ:
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Best beginner-friendly 2D library
Ideally, I'd like something like gloss in Haskell.
nanovg
Posts with mentions or reviews of nanovg.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
We haven't tracked posts mentioning nanovg yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing gloss and nanovg you can also consider the following projects:
OpenGL - Haskell bindings to OpenGL
GLUT - Haskell bindings to GLUT
hayland - DEPRECATED Haskell bindings for the Wayland library
brick - A declarative Unix terminal UI library written in Haskell
Rasterific - A drawing engine in Haskell
pcf-font - PCF font parsing and rendering library.
friday - Fast image IO and transformations.
rhythm-game-tutorial - Create a rhythm game with Haskell!
threepenny-gui - GUI framework that uses the web browser as a display.
Chart - A 2D charting library for haskell
fltkhs - Haskell bindings to FLTK GUI toolkit.
sdl2 - Haskell bindings to the SDL2 library