pcf-font VS gloss

Compare pcf-font vs gloss and see what are their differences.

pcf-font

PCF font parsing and rendering library. (by michael-swan)

gloss

Painless 2D vector graphics, animations and simulations. (by benl23x5)
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pcf-font gloss
- 5
2 392
- -
1.2 0.0
about 1 year ago over 1 year ago
Haskell Haskell
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License MIT License
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pcf-font

Posts with mentions or reviews of pcf-font. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

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.
  • About Gloss
    1 project | /r/haskell | 6 Dec 2022
    That Picture type is what does all the heavy lifting. Have you read its Haddocks already? There's an example using play in gloss-examples if it helps you (it just renders the most recent event as text on the screen). When I was new to Haskell and gloss, I found "following the types" helped. There's only a limited amount of things you can do with Picture, and those limitations can help guide you.
  • Are there more elegant languages for generative art and creative coding?
    4 projects | /r/generative | 18 Sep 2022
    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.
  • Can't install WxHaskell on Windows
    2 projects | /r/haskell | 7 Oct 2021
    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).
  • Using gloss on Windows
    2 projects | /r/haskell | 23 May 2021
    This question is in the gloss FAQ:
  • Best beginner-friendly 2D library
    2 projects | /r/rust | 3 Mar 2021
    Ideally, I'd like something like gloss in Haskell.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing pcf-font and gloss you can also consider the following projects:

bindings-GLFW - Low-level Haskell bindings to GLFW

OpenGL - Haskell bindings to OpenGL

friday - Fast image IO and transformations.

nanovg - NanoVG Haskell bindings

hylide - GLSL embedded in Haskell

GLUT - Haskell bindings to GLUT

processing-for-haskell - Graphics for kids and artists. Processing implemented in Haskell

brick - A declarative Unix terminal UI library written in Haskell

OpenGLRaw - Haskell bindings to OpenGL (direct C bindings)

Rasterific - A drawing engine in Haskell

log-warper - Logging library to provide more convenient, extremely configurable but simple monadic interface with pretty output

Chart - A 2D charting library for haskell