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Making a GTK application in Haskell, part 1 floreal.tech

seba_dos12 hours ago

Replace `backdrop-filter` on `.backdrop::after` with `filter` on `.backdrop picture` for a free scrolling performance boost.

nh2an hour ago

Indeed the scrolling performance is awful, makes reading it less enjoyable, especially when the topic is GUIs!

birchcove2 hours ago

i've been writing Haskell GUIs for a few years and mostly stick to react-banana or reflex because wiring up gtk-gi signals manually gets messy fast. The Elm architecture pattern here looks clean on paper but I'm curious how you handle async events from the widget tree without ending up in callback hell. Did you end up wrapping all GI callbacks in a channel that feeds into your update loop?

beanjuiceIIan hour ago

bro takes 2 years to make a todo list

drnick1an hour ago

Just keep in mind that some people like me avoid Haskell and the huge package mess it causes on Linux. Pandoc is infamous for that. Just stick to C++.

Vosporosopan hour ago

That is entirely your distribution's fault. ArchLinux has a user-hostile packaging approach which I do not experience in Fedora.

klez19 minutes ago

What does Arch do in particular to cause a mess? It's been a hot minute since I last used it and surely didn't use pandoc back then.

Ambolia35 minutes ago

I completely avoid any haskell package in Arch and just build it with Stack, it's usually simple.

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