Re: Remote GHCi

So the remote GHCi server I had in mind would be too dumb to support this - it would be at a much lower level, with support for linking object code and bytecode and evaluation only. What you probably want for this is a remote interface to the GHC API, similar to what ide-backend provides. Cheers, Simon On 17/11/2015 10:40, Alan & Kim Zimmerman wrote:

This fits in directly with what I am trying to do for the haskell-ide-engine, where the intention is to expose ghci via an asynchronous process with communication via message passing.

A bonus would be to have two separate interfaces, one for REPL interaction for the user, the other to be able to query properties of the loaded code.

I am currently investigating exposing Behavior and RunTerm from haskeline to create a message passing backend instead.

Alan

On 17 Nov 2015 12:11 PM, "Simon Marlow" mailto:marlowsd@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi folks - I've been thinking about changing the way we run interpreted code so that it would be run in a separate process. It turns out this has quite a few benefits, and would let us kill some of the really awkward hacks we have in GHC to work around problems that arise because we're running interpreted code and the compiler on the same runtime.

I summarised the idea here: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/RemoteGHCi

I'd be interested to hear if anyone has any thoughts around this, particularly if doing this would make your life difficult in some way. Are people relying on dynCompileExpr for anything?

Cheers, Simon _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org mailto:ghc-devs@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs