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 som…

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.)

https://twitter.com/chris_mccord/status/593907559129550848 For a cross-platform desktop app Java would be my choice. If the Java client isn’t ready then you might investigate the possibility of channel integration by executing Phoenix.js through Nashorn. JavaFX is really easy to work with and can…

If you have web development experience, I would recommend Electron. It’s fairly easy to build and distribute a desktop application if you already have experience with web technologies. I wrote an app using Elm and distributed it as an Electron app. elixir and a server and elm as a frontend is prett…

Wow. I recently been using Atom a bit and have been impressed by it. I never bothered to wonder how they were handling their gui. I guess this is it! A lot of stuff to digest but if Atom is basically using electron (I understand it was formerly called “atom shell”) for its gui then it ought to b…

Thanks. It will have a centralized store, of sorts, but not really client-server. The nodes are supposed to maintain their own limited data and keep operating in case of any outage and, later, synchronize. The purpose is to tie together a number of loosely coupled businesses.

[image] gnat: I previously would have classified Elm and Elixir as “competitors” in somewhat the same space. I had read something about a project to bring Elm to the server. 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…

[image] gnat: I’m intrigued that Elm – another language which I’ve read a bit about but not yet learned – and Elixir are being used together… Does this qualify as a real symbiosis? Are the communities cooperating? At the latest Elixir conference which you can find on Youtube, the author of …

Yes. I guess I saw that - didn’t read it. Thanks for locating the comment. I figured Elm was at least originally written in Haskell (don’t really know, but figured). So it doesn’t have to stay with HTML/CSS/JS manipulation, right? It’s getting kind of crazy out there. You should see the kind of st…

For GUIs in Elixir you can still use Erlangs wx -module. For this to work, of course, it is necessary that your Erlang release is compiled with wx included. But for the client side I’d prefer a more lightweight solution that does not pull in a full gigabyte as runtime dependency… This in mind, I do…

[image] gnat: 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 Lin…

ElixirConf 2017 included a talk about building a UI “natively” in Elixir that is quite exciting to me! (It uses a port to talk to OpenGL via a small C wrapper). I’m looking forward to the code being released so I can play around with it. Here’s the link to the forum post discussing the talk that @b…

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mchean October 23, 2017, 8:07pm 15

So maybe just presenting the browser as a GUI interface would be the best solution?