About Slate and GUI

[Tony Garnock-Jones]

Brian Rice wrote:
> Yeah, that's a decent start. Why did you do this? Or rather, why did  
> you not come back?

Good question. Partly that I suddenly had less time in my life for 
recreational programming, and partly I think that the FFI stuff was too 
immature when I first became interested. Now, of course, the libffi 
stuff (IIRC) has been integrated which greatly improves the situation... 
it's probably time for me to have another go.

> It was definitely written with the Cairo model in mind. But you
> /wrote/ most of that Cairo stuff - so why are you off working on
> other things?

Did I? It was Michael Bridgen who wrote the Chicken Cairo bindings; I 
don't think I wrote any Cairo stuff for Slate, unless I've completely 
forgotten?

Tony