On Sun, Jul 08, 2012 at 09:21:08AM -0600, Jonathan Geddes wrote:
I agree that the Raison d'être for a .NET or JVM backend is interop.
Perhaps that's not worth the effort of an entirely new backend. JavaScript
is a different beast, however. I said before:
From my point of view, languages
Thanks for all the Info, Brent! I wasn't aware of many of those projects.
I agree that contributing to an existing project is a better idea than
doing something new. I suppose I was hoping there would be an official GHC
JavaScript backend so that it would be clear which of the efforts to
On 9 July 2012 15:38, Brent Yorgey byor...@seas.upenn.edu wrote:
I should point out that the ball already IS rolling -- ranging from
EDSLs that compile to JavaScript [1,2] to macro systems [3] to more
serious full-featured efforts [4,5].
Also, a JavaScript backend has recently been developed
2012/7/8 Jonathan Geddes geddes.jonat...@gmail.com:
Venerable Haskell Hackers,
I love Haskell and think it should run everywhere. Now supposing I would
like to build another backend for GHC, perhaps for Java Bytecode, .Net CIL,
or JavaScript, What would be the best way to approach that? I can
* Niklas Larsson:
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/GHC/FAQ#Why_isn.27t_GHC_available_for_.NET_or_on_the_JVM.3F
It would make a lot of sense to give GHC a .NET or JVM back end, and
it's a question that comes up regularly. The reason that we haven't
done it here, at GHC HQ, is because it's a
I agree that the Raison d'être for a .NET or JVM backend is interop.
Perhaps that's not worth the effort of an entirely new backend. JavaScript
is a different beast, however. I said before:
From my point of view, languages that cannot run on one of the 3
aforementioned platforms will become
Venerable Haskell Hackers,
I love Haskell and think it should run everywhere. Now supposing I would
like to build another backend for GHC, perhaps for Java Bytecode, .Net CIL,
or JavaScript, What would be the best way to approach that? I can think of
a few options:
1. Produce External Core with
As to your porting of Haskell to the JVM question; the JVM would be unable
to perform all the optimizations that GHC can do. There is really not much
point in running slow code.
JavaScript is interesting since the JIT compiler gets better all the time.
On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 10:02 PM, Jonathan
