From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by sympa.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 991F6820A1 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2013 09:38:57 +0200 (CEST) Received-SPF: None (mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of gabriel@kerneis.info) identity=pra; client-ip=176.31.113.173; receiver=mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="gabriel@kerneis.info"; x-sender="gabriel@kerneis.info"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible Received-SPF: Pass (mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr: domain of gabriel@kerneis.info designates 176.31.113.173 as permitted sender) identity=mailfrom; client-ip=176.31.113.173; receiver=mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="gabriel@kerneis.info"; x-sender="gabriel@kerneis.info"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible; x-record-type="v=spf1" Received-SPF: Pass (mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr: domain of postmaster@wanbli.kerneis.info designates 176.31.113.173 as permitted sender) identity=helo; client-ip=176.31.113.173; receiver=mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="gabriel@kerneis.info"; x-sender="postmaster@wanbli.kerneis.info"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible; x-record-type="v=spf1" X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AtUFAMQcMFKwH3Gt/2dsb2JhbABbgwc4gzTABoEbFnSCJQEBBToGAQE3AQ8LGAkTEg8FKCGIGQivN4RMAQWOLQaPZgeDHYEAjmiJEoEwhHMNhhOFMIMh X-IPAS-Result: AtUFAMQcMFKwH3Gt/2dsb2JhbABbgwc4gzTABoEbFnSCJQEBBToGAQE3AQ8LGAkTEg8FKCGIGQivN4RMAQWOLQaPZgeDHYEAjmiJEoEwhHMNhhOFMIMh X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.90,882,1371074400"; d="scan'208";a="32374915" Received: from wanbli.kerneis.info ([176.31.113.173]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA; 11 Sep 2013 09:38:56 +0200 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=kerneis.info; s=wanbli-rsa1; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version:References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date; bh=O1Qj5rUsELPhoeQAMnWvcywAphIu7hJ8vvBKEzYDVOs=; b=l3nTg9777BFfhEDhKGg9NSb6vDp1YR5YDOA/PZtQVTDUV/nj9jFoGdPAOInTtwL9oG0jiSCoTDum+ELNJMfVtUSTGo06hrfiiOB1skvaOk5Gt//KZBWpHG75t8SbhntcEQRsC/o/tR1N6RDcTArGlIKiT1NtjfeVoHXgbfMNfic=; Received: from [176.254.216.29] (helo=wacehi.kerneis.info) by wanbli.kerneis.info with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VJf0p-0004I0-OM; Wed, 11 Sep 2013 07:38:55 +0000 Received: from gabriel by wacehi.kerneis.info with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VJf0o-0001BA-PD; Wed, 11 Sep 2013 08:38:54 +0100 Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 08:38:54 +0100 From: Gabriel Kerneis To: Gour Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Message-ID: <20130911073854.GA4499@kerneis.info> References: <20130910230928.2d51cd39@atmarama.noip.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130910230928.2d51cd39@atmarama.noip.me> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 176.254.216.29 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: gabriel@kerneis.info X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on wanbli.kerneis.info); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml vs Ada and/or GUI options On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 11:09:28PM +0200, Gour wrote: > I still believe there is use-case for classical desktop apps and that > it's not true that everything has to run within browser. :-) Note that "desktop app" and "run within browser" are not necessarily exclusive: Light Table [1] is an example of an application that runs a tiny webserver (written in Clojure) locally on your desktop, and uses node-webkit [2] for its GUI. Node-webkit requires HTML+javascript for the UI of course, but the latter can be compiled from Clojure by ClojureScript [3] or, in the case of OCaml, Js_of_ocaml [4]. And you can embed node-webkit in your distribution, which means that you do not need to test a gazillion browsers in the wild. -- Gabriel [1] http://www.chris-granger.com/lighttable/ [2] https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit [3] https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript [4] http://ocsigen.org/js_of_ocaml/