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What functional language would you recommend for something like a GUI application then? I have very little experience with such languages but am always looking
by azhenley 7y ago
What functional language would you recommend for something like a GUI application then? I have very little experience with such languages but am always looking forward to trying one when I get a chance.
- pjmlp 7y agoThere is none that can match the tooling of Delphi, C++, .NET, Java, Swift/Objective-C for RAD UI development. Even the languages that target the JVM or CLR are not supported on the existing GUI tooling, forcing you to do workarounds. So Scala, Clojure, F# can do it, but you end up having to save JavaFX or WPF layouts, while throwing away the generated code, and load them via library calls. Or you write the UI layer in Java/C#/VB.NET/C++, while writing the rest as a library. So at the end of the day you are forced to chose between RAD productivity or FP purity. EDIT: I have naturally forgot Common Lisp, but for that you should make use of Allegro or LispWorks, not Emacs + FOSS Lisp compiler.