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LablGTK 2 and 3: an interface to the GIMP Tool Kit

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xvilka·Apr 25, 2023

Lablgtk[1][2] for GUI, Owl[3][4] for scientific computing. [1] https://garrigue.github.io/lablgtk/ [2] https://github.com/garrigue/lablgtk [3] https://ocaml.xyz/ [4] https://github.com/owlbarn/owl

In I Wrote an Activitypub Server in OCaml: Lessons Learnt, Weekends Lost

flukus·Jul 31, 2019

Couldn't disagree more, writing apps in C is a breath of fresh air compared anything in java but especially android. I can start with a simple C file and write hello world in a few lines of C (dated examples: http://zetcode.com/gui/gtk2/firstprograms/) and run it on my desktop, IME the complexity curve remains quite flat. AFAIK mono never gained much acceptance (and was highly controversial at the time) and most of the gnome ecosystem is written in C, I'd be surprised if there was more C# code than JS and python in gnome today. > I fear this OS is destined to become like Samsung Tizen, which is riddled with security holes. Is the gnome desktop riddled with security holes? I don't know much about tizen but they seem to have written a lot more of their own stuff, the vast majority librem is battle hardened. > It's not as if we don't have ex

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cellent libre languages, e.g. Rust and OCaml. Rust is not mature enough, especially in it's UI libs and is virtual unheard of outside the HN bubble. The most mature UI available appears to be the GTK bindings though so it's mostly the same stack that you think is a mistake. OCaml despite being older is even more unknown and from a quick google it's most mature UI library seems to also be an out of date GTK (https://github.com/garrigue/lablgtk). Betting on either of those would be the death of the project. > I applaud the open nature of this phone, but using the Gnome stack looks to me like a mistake. Gtk and Qt are the only serious options as of today without having to sink in years of dev work. If anyone really wants to avoid C then there's the GObject system that lets you write code in js/python/xml/others, but I'm hoping this turns out to be the phone ecosystem that respects users and doesn't sacrifice their time and battery for the developers convenience.

In Librem 5 Smartphone Final Specs

xvilka·Aug 23, 2018

Speaking of problems, in my opinions the three biggest are: - Lack of automatic multicore scheduling, this is going to be solved with OCaml multicore project [1] - Lack of updated GUI libraries. There is LablGTK [2], but it stuck to GTK+ 2 version. The main developer started [3] to work on GTK+ 3 version support, but it is still at the very beginning. - Bad Windows platform support [4] (grep for "Windows" word at this page) and [5]. With upcoming opam-2.0 [6] release the support will be slightly better though. [1] https://github.com/ocamllabs/ocaml-multicore [2] https://github.com/garrigue/lablgtk [3] https://github.com/garrigue/lablgtk/issues/2 [4] https://caml.inria.fr/mantis/roadmap_page.php [5] https://github.com/ocaml/opam/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Ai... [6] http://opam.ocaml.org/blog/opam-2-0-0-repo-upgrade-roadmap/

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