# GUI programming in Elixir?

**URL:** <https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/gui-programming-in-elixir/304>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Tags:** electron\
**Created:** [April 3, 2016, 4:47pm UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/gui-programming-in-elixir/304 "2016-04-03T16:47:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![mackenza](https://forum.elixirforum.com/user_avatar/forum.elixirforum.com/mackenza/32/189_2.png) [@mackenza](https://forum.elixirforum.com/u/mackenza)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 4:04pm UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/gui-programming-in-elixir/304/11 "2016-04-07T16:04:07Z")

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> [@gnat](#):
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> 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.

if this is your goal, Elixir is not at all well suited to learn by creating GUIs. All the answers you got above are about actually creating the GUI itself in another language (Elm, JS/HTML/CSS with Electron, Java) not in Elixir. All the above answers are good, but if your stated goal is to learn Elixir by doing GUI programming (non-web), you won’t find much/anything to support that in Elixir itself.

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