gnat
I’m completely new to Elixir and don’t know Ruby, either.
Is anyone writing GUI applications in Elixir? I don’t know the language and the easiest way for me to learn (not to mention the way I’d primarily be using any language right now) is for desktop applications with a GUI front end - ideally something that will work on both Mac and Linux. What are my choices and how well supported/ integrated are they? In case it matters, I’m specifically interested in writing a distributed business application connecting multiple machines over the internet. From that standpoint, Elixir seems like it might be a good fit. But I need to have a GUI interface and not just in a browser.
I tried to research this question first with a web search and then with a search on this site; I haven’t found any good answers so far.
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AstonJ
Will the app be connected to a central server?
If so I would look at http://electron.atom.io for the GUI and then use Elixir on the back end/server. (@kofno has some experience with Electron. Hopefully he’ll spot this and add some thoughts.)
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AstonJ
No they are not competitors at all - Elm is front end and Elixir is backend. Elm is a HTML/CSS/JS transpilier, I can’t see why they would want it on the server as well, and even if they did, it would be JS - nobody in their right mind would want JS on the server
yawaramin
Here’s Joe Armstrong’s research on GUI options for Erlang: [erlang-questions] My quest for a decent way to make a GUI in erlang
Gee5ive
Kind of late to the party here, but for anyone still interested in this, I’m currently building a phoenix app that I plan to distribute on desktops using webview, seems to be the most simple and straightforward approach.
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Snake-Sanders
I passed by the other day to check out what was new on this topic, I did a quick search and I found this awesome project:
Elixir Desktop