Grapefruit is a new suite of libraries for functional reactive-style GUIs layered on top of GTK (via gtk2hs), announced today. Besides being a modern FRP gui library, it notably uses arrow syntax to describe gui components.
Arrow syntax is a bit of a rarity in Haskell code:
addA f g = proc x -> do y <- f -< x z <- g -< x returnA -< y + z
Will build the computation:
All the components are packaged here for Arch Linux.
In other funky Haskell gui news, haskell-haha has also been released and packaged for Arch, and lets us do vector graphics in ascii in the terminal…. hell yeah!
Here’s a video of haha at work, and how to get it via cabal (yaourt also works fine):
pretty cool.