Re: How to get started with a new backend?

On Jan 27, 2013, at 11:21 PM, David Terei wrote:

I believe that some Microsoft Research folks at Cambridge got a fairly far along implementation of Haskell on Java or .NET many years back but concluded it wasn't a good fit. My rusty memory of a conversation with Simon Marlow about this was that all the Java libraries basically ended up in IO and matching the API and type design up with Haskell wasn't very nice.

Not sure what the motivation is, but you may want to look at VMKit: http://vmkit.llvm.org/. It could be a good fit and may be easy to use through the LLVM backend.

I had the impression vmkit is for building new vms. I would like to generate code that runs on the CLR (aka .NET). Jason