GUI for Standard ML?

Question

I started learning Standard ML recently out of curiosity. So what I know is that is has an efficient compiler (MLton) which allows us to freely use abstractions without worrying about performance.

It would be perfect if I could do some GUI programming with Standard ML, too. Is there anything like Gtk, Qt, or WxWidgets binding for Standard ML?

Thank you very much.

Answer 1

Here's a paper describing the mGTK project, which is a Standard ML binding to GTK. There are also a couple of interfaces to OpenGL, although this is more 2 and 3D graphics-oriented rather than specifically a GUI toolkit. eXene is a toolkit for X Windows. sml_tk is an interface to Tk.

Answer 2

There are bindings for foreign toolkits, but the eXene toolkit was designed to be native for SML and to exploit the features of Concurrent ML. I used it years ago and found it a very smooth fit for the language and a pleasure to use. But it does not have the ginormous library of components that you find in the more widely used toolkits.