Making a GTK application in Haskell, part 1

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• pluc 43 minutes ago
  > import GI.Awd qualified as Adw

  please tell me that's a typo

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  • tensegrist 39 minutes ago
    possibly enabled by lsp (Adw.foo -> "foo found in GI.Awd, import it with the name you used?")
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    • pluc 33 minutes ago
      yeah seems to be a typo, it is "Adw" and not "Awd", phew

      https://hackage.haskell.org/package/gi-adwaita
• seba_dos1 2 hours ago
  Replace `backdrop-filter` on `.backdrop::after` with `filter` on `.backdrop picture` for a free scrolling performance boost.
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  • nh2 1 hour ago
    Indeed the scrolling performance is awful, makes reading it less enjoyable, especially when the topic is GUIs!
  • grimgrin 14 minutes ago
    desktop and mobile browsers have a reader mode icon you can click. it is useful for 1) this 2) website blocking fully loaded content with some paywall popup 3) and more!

    click it for a better time
• mintik 32 minutes ago
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• birchcove 2 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?
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  • freedomben 9 minutes ago
    Is Haskell in this case just binding a local HTTP port that users then hit with the browser? Or is it like a Tauri/Electron type of thing?
• beanjuiceII 1 hour ago
  bro takes 2 years to make a todo list
• drnick1 1 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++.
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  • kccqzy 28 minutes ago
    Does your distro not statically link Haskell libraries the way it’s meant to? Installing pandoc only requires libgmp.
  • Vosporos 1 hour ago
    That is entirely your distribution's fault. ArchLinux has a user-hostile packaging approach which I do not experience in Fedora.
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    • klez 1 hour 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.
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      • spider-mario 1 minute ago
        They build and link all Haskell libraries dynamically.
    • Ambolia 1 hour ago
      I completely avoid any haskell package in Arch and just build it with Stack, it's usually simple.