brassica
Avalonia.FuncUI
brassica | Avalonia.FuncUI | |
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7 | 21 | |
21 | 846 | |
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8.2 | 8.3 | |
30 days ago | 6 days ago | |
Haskell | F# | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
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brassica
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Calling Haskell from Swift
I’ve done something like this before to call Haskell from C++ (in [0]), so that I can build my GUI using Qt. It worked pretty well, except that I ran into various difficult-to-resolve linking problems on both Windows and Linux. After a year or two of trying to maintain it, I gave up and switched to a protocol where both sides pass JSON over stdin/stdout. This particular piece of software doesn’t require a huge amount of communication or shared data, so it works well enough.
The really nice thing about the original interop code, though, is that GHC’s new WASM backend uses essentially the same foreign function interface to export functions to JavaScript. So with only some minor modifications, I was able to get the same program working on a webpage [1], which I think is pretty cool.
[0] https://github.com/bradrn/brassica
[1] At the risk of DDOS’ing my poor little home server: https://bradrn.com/brassica/
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Haskell WebAssembly in the Browser
GHC’s WASM backend is already really useful! I also used it to port one of my own programs to the browser [0], albeit not using the DOM as this person did. Documentation is still sparse, but it’s a very similar process to creating a shared foreign library.
[0] https://github.com/bradrn/brassica
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GUI development with Rust and GTK 4
No experience with Rust, but for a couple of personal projects I’ve written the logic in Haskell and the GUI in C++ (e.g. https://github.com/bradrn/brassica/blob/master/ARCHITECTURE....). It works pretty well, at least for smaller projects — the basic idea is that the Haskell code gets compiled into a library (static on Windows, dynamic on Linux) which the C++ side can link to. I’d imagine doing the same with Rust would be even easier, since it’s less of a pain to marshal stuff across the language barrier.
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Ask HN: What are your “scratch own itch” projects?
The biggest one for me is undoubtedly my custom keyboard layout Conkey [0], which I use constantly (including for typing this very comment). I hate the way the base US layout tends to get distorted in other keyboard layouts with good support for non-ASCII characters, so Conkey had the explicit goal of retaining that basic unshifted layout. I’ve also ended up porting Conkey to Mac and Linux — and given that I’m slowly switching from Windows to Linux, at least the Linux ports have ‘scratched my own itch’ too, which is nice.
Also, I made a utility to archive the full text of every website I view and store it in a SQLite database for searching. It’s proven pretty useful when I want to find something I saw a while ago and then forgot. (I haven’t attempted to open-source it, though — it consists of three entirely separate components, two of which were a pain to set up. I must try to get it into a more usable state one of these days.)
What else… my sound change applier [1], perhaps? Not that I use it very much, because I only need it on those occasions when I want to do some conlanging, which I haven’t had much time for recently. Actually, sound change appliers strike me as being very much a ‘scratch own itch’ type of project in general… sometimes it feels like every conlanger has written their own, and no two can agree on a nice design. Everyone just has their own unique preferred way of doing things.
[0] https://github.com/bradrn/Conkey
[1] https://github.com/bradrn/brassica
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‘Missing C libraries’ when compiling haskell-gi-base on Windows
Recently I’ve been trying to do some GTK+ programming again, as a change from my more recent attempts to use Qt with Haskell. Alas, when I try to build the example application from the documentation, I get an error:
- Brassica architecture (plus some general advice on calling statically linked Haskell from C)
- Rustdoc Résumé
Avalonia.FuncUI
- Uno: Create Beautiful Cross Platform .NET Apps Faster
- AvaloniaUI: Create Multi-Platform Apps with .NET
- Course using F#: Write your own tiny programming system(s)
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ASP.NET Core Blazor
For those interested in .NET languages with alternative compilation targets, Elmish (https://elmish.github.io/elmish/) is pretty unique.
We use F# on the front end (instead of TS), and thanks to the Fable compiler (which transpiles F# to JS, Python, Dart, PHP and Rust), most of the benefits of an Elm-style model in the UI can be ported to all sorts of different outputs languages. The rust target is in beta, but its promising because the WASM bundle size stands to be dramatically lower.
While the default is reactivity library for Elmish is React, you can swap in Avalonia/FuncUI (https://github.com/fsprojects/Avalonia.FuncUI) pretty easily as well.
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GUI development with Rust and GTK 4
The code to declare/build the widgets is quite nice. Modifying widgets by hand on certain signals or manually re-wiring all the signals seems a bit outdated to me.
Wonder if something like FuncUI [1] could be built on top of it.
[1] https://github.com/fsprojects/Avalonia.FuncUI
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Desktop UI with F# web frameworks?
OTOH, if desktop really is the primary focus, and if you can drop the idea of reusable UI code, then Avalonia is a great choice for F# as you can use a Avalonia.FuncUI and/or Elmish.Avalonia.
- Functional cross platform UI in F#
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Why does it seem like Microsoft is actively ignoring AvaloniaUI?
And one more MVU for you https://github.com/fsprojects/Avalonia.FuncUI
- Is Maui dead on arrival?
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Ask HN: How to make a native GUI with a modern language?
You might want to check out Avalonia.FuncUI, which lets you use F# and the cross-platform Avalonia framework to build desktop applications with an Elm-like architecture: https://github.com/fsprojects/Avalonia.FuncUI#example-using-...
What are some alternatives?
kn - kn — nvgt/fldrs/qckly
Fabulous - Declarative UI framework for cross-platform mobile & desktop apps, using MVU and F# functional programming
PoC_CVEs - PoC_CVEs
MySqlConnector - MySQL Connector for .NET
FeedTheMonkey - Desktop client for the TinyTinyRSS feed reader.
Avalonia - Develop Desktop, Embedded, Mobile and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. The most popular .NET UI client technology
floem - A native Rust UI library with fine-grained reactivity
openiddict-core - Flexible and versatile OAuth 2.0/OpenID Connect stack for .NET
files_reader
Elmish.WPF - Static WPF views for elmish programs
gvsbuild - GTK stack for Windows
Sutil - Lightweight front-end framework for F# / Fable. No dependencies.