On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Aleksi Nurmi <[email protected]> wrote: > Now that I think of it, is there a compelling reason not to use GHC > for native code compilation? It is stable and in active development.
Yes: the longer the dependency chain for BitC, the harder it is to adopt. > Many recent languages such as Agda actually target Haskell... Research languages can afford to do that. BitC has been intended from the beginning to end up a production language. I have a lot of respect for GHC, but having one strange new language depend on a second strange language (in the eyes of the mainstream) would be problematic, and it doesn't seem like we need that extra dependency. shap _______________________________________________ bitc-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.coyotos.org/mailman/listinfo/bitc-dev
