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From: Adrien Nader <adrien@notk.org>
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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: OCaml vs Ada and/or GUI options

On Wed, Sep 11, 2013, Anthony Tavener wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> > My advice would be to forget about using OCaml's FFI to interop with
> > Linux' GUI libraries and focus instead on writing a new GUI library from
> > scratch in OCaml using OpenGL.
> >
> 
> I agree. Game-devs do this all the time -- making their own GUIs -- and
> they're often slicker and faster. It's not as hard making something
> app-specific. The difficulty is making a library that supports every
> edge-case that every developer needs (and still falling short).

I've found the game menus to be the worst thing on Earth.
They are (*) consistently slow to load, cpu-hungry, memory-hungry, and
often crashy. You typically need as much power to display the menu than
you need to run the game itself.

(*) I've stopped playing during the past few years; maybe that has
improved but I doubt it.

PS: a11y (accessibility) is not to be forgotten btw.

-- 
Adrien Nader