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the__alchemist • yesterday at 4:33 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

It sounds like it needs foundational libraries? Or is it something else. For example, almost everything I write requires one or more of:

  - Embedded toolchain and/or HAL/register map for my MCU family or CPU arhitecture
  - A GUI library and/or basic I/O interaction library (keyboard/mouse to start)
  - A GPU interaction library
  - A web framework (Not going to roll my own DB interface, auth, user system, router, template system etc)
(Etc). I.e., some core library which handles the drudgery I can build my application on. If this is what you're getting at, this suggests a plan of attack!

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jose_zap • yesterday at 7:31 PM

Embedded toolchain and/or HAL/register map:

- Copilot (by NASA)

- MicroHs — for running Haskell on an MCU

GUI library and/or basic keyboard/mouse I/O:

- Monomer

- sdl2

- gi-gtk4

GPU interaction library

- OpenGL bindings

- vulkan bindnigs

- Accelerate — numerical GPU computation with an NVIDIA backend.

Web framework with database access, auth, users, routing, and templates:

- IHP

- Yesod

chriswarbo • yesterday at 5:26 PM

Pretty sure those all exist; e.g. at work we use Yesod and Servant, which are a couple of Haskell web frameworks.