On Fri, 27 Sep 2013 19:08:28 +0200 "Damien Guichard" wrote: Hiya Damien, > OCaml is multi-paradigm in nature. Great. > There are multiple ways (multiple trade-offs) a thing can be done. Nice. > Same about books, documentation, tutorials, IDEs ... > In contrast with Caml-Light, OCaml has no 'official' book, tutorial > or IDE. However i expect many to come, some to become almost > forgotten, some to be cited as a reference point (Ocaml evolves > continually). Actually there is an 'official' OCaml 2.2 book, but > somewhat obsolete now. I plan to use RWO book. > Just my humble opinion of course. Of course. > I understand that, as a beginner, you may consider diversity as a > danger. It seems your software is more fragile because some basic > block could be discontinued. Right. > I would answer : the software fragility lies in the programmer, > not in the language ecosystem being too weak. Heh, "batteries included" still helps. > Actually GTK 2.24 looks very great when a good theme is applied. On Mac? > You can have this metal brush look. Or this white water-button look. > Or whatever look you can imagine (or design). I'm more worried about the state of GTK's support on Win/Mac than about LablGTK... > Plus LablGtk is an excellent binding that makes GTK programming far > much easier. ...which I actually consider very good bindings. > Otherwise i would warmly welcome a Qt binding. Me too...similar with wxOCaml if having them actively maintained. > However, i dont wait for it, i go ahead. Sure, I'll start learning OCaml and working on non-GUI things. > Even if i switch to Qt some day i don't loose my time, > because knowing GTK, whatever language, is an asset anyway. That's true, but I'd prefer saving some of my free time meant to be spent for working on this open-source project, if possible. > I hope i am not too much rude with you, > I apologize if i am, Not at all. Thank you. Sincerely, Gour -- A person is considered still further advanced when he regards honest well-wishers, affectionate benefactors, the neutral, mediators, the envious, friends and enemies, the pious and the sinners all with an equal mind. http://www.atmarama.net | Hlapicina (Croatia) | GPG: 52B5C810