| If anything I would like to see the Haskell community produce a
Haskell
| front end which was compiler neutral. That would facilitate many
| interesting projects, and that might even help with the need to
support
| new extensions as they come along. There are already some candidates
| floating around, but it seems they are not widely adopted.
Well, "ghc -c -fext-core Foo.hs" is a Haskell front end that produces
System F code ("External Core"), in a file Foo.hcr. I'm not sure
whether that was what you meant.
However, External Core doesn't seem to have really caught on. Only 5%
said it was essential, with another 16% saying "nice to have". I'm sure
there's room to improve the ExtCore route.
Simon
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