threepenny-gui VS tvmv

Maybe? https://github.com/HeinrichApfelmus/threepenny-gui

Not if you use my Threepenny-gui library. 😉

If you really want FRP, use Obelisk (based on Reflex-Dom. I will call just say "Obelisk" to refer to Obelisk's dependencies Reflex-Dom, Reflex,... too). I like the author of threepenny-gui and the library has the great advantages of not needing GHCJS (Obelisk does not need GHCJS either theoretically but I do not know how easy it currently is to make it work without) nor Nix. But the library was originally built as a non-FRP library and it has been lacking essential FRP combinators for a long time.

The threepenny-gui library is probably best if you just want a simple way to make GUIs. However, it doesn't really do desktop GUIs as such: it displays your GUI as a webpage running on localhost. However, it does work pretty well with Electron, which gives you a desktop application.

For this purpose, I normally use threepenny-gui, which can be used with Electron. (As it happens, that combination is what I’m using for my current Haskell program.)

By the way, this is the tool. And here's its package.yaml, if that matters. (FWIW, I've built all three binaries the same way, with a simple stack build, using GHC 9.2.8.)

https://github.com/keithfancher/tvmv (or check out the quick-start to get the rough idea)

I'm putting the finishing touches on my second "real" Haskell project*, and now that I find myself (mostly) able to get some (simple, practical) stuff done with the language, I'd like to spend some time learning more about how to put types to work.

For example, I wanted to build a tool to pull down TV episode data from an API and bulk-rename files. Super IO-heavy, figured it would be a P.I.T.A. to write in Haskell. But I did it anyway, haha. And it was fine! Fun, even.

And now I'm working on something a bit more complex: lots of IO, filestystem stuff, API calls, etc. It's basically a FileBot replacement (tentatively) called tvmv. And after that, I kinda want to try a small game.