LLVM probably already supports producing native code for all of the architectures for the mobile platforms. The non-trivial parts are probably getting GHC to cross-compile and wrapping all of the libraries you need for the platforms you want to support.
On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 12:41 PM, KC <[email protected]> wrote: > Then it looks as if the easier implementation would be small Haskell > VM's for the various platforms with a byte code compiler. > I do not believe the JVM supports all the optimizations GHC can do. > > Oh wait! > Can the LLVM be easily ported to do this? > > > On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Andrew Pennebaker > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Might be easier to have the browser connect to a Haskell app. > > > > > > Not all apps can be run as thin clients. 3D video games and other > intensive > > programs aren't easily done as thin clients. Mobile Haskell would be very > > powerful, because concurrency and parallelism aren't something the > C-family > > languages are supporting that well. > > > >> > >> > >> > >> On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Andrew Pennebaker > >> <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > There are currently very few options, especially free and open source > >> > options, when it comes to developing cross-platform mobile > applications. > >> > It's basically web apps with JavaScript, or C++. If Haskell supported > >> > app > >> > development on Android, iOS, and Windows RT, that alone would bring in > >> > more > >> > developers. > >> > > >> > Similarly, there are very few languages for mobile development that > take > >> > advantage of multiple cores and multiple CPUs. Haskell's `parmap` is > an > >> > amazing selling point. Can we please prioritize mobile support? I'd > much > >> > rather write everything in ML than PhoneGap. > >> > > >> > -- > >> > Cheers, > >> > > >> > Andrew Pennebaker > >> > www.yellosoft.us > >> > > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > >> > [email protected] > >> > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > >> > > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> -- > >> Regards, > >> KC > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Cheers, > > > > Andrew Pennebaker > > www.yellosoft.us > > > > -- > -- > Regards, > KC > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >
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