On Feb 10, 2007, at 2:25 PM, Brian Smith wrote:
Is your application primarily written in Haskell? If not, you would have to create an interface between that language and Haskell in order for your Haskell programs to manipulate your domain objects and user interface.
It would be Objective-C and Haskell, the exact split yet unknown.
I think people would be happy if you did this because then there would be a Haskell API for Cocoa, but it seems like a lot of work.
You already have this in HOC (http://hoc.sourceforge.net/)
My guess is that it would be easier to do such bindings for Javascript due to its dynamic nature and it being an object-oriented language. Also, several projects have embedded Javascript successfully and so you would have many examples to base your project on.
I don't see how this is different from Ruby.
Visual Haskell also embeds GHC (into Visual Studio). However, Visual Haskell makes my Visual Studio unstable and often unresponsive.
I'm not sure this would apply to me as I'm on Mac OSX.
But, there were disadvantages too (e.g. I had to implement my own lexer because doing doing it with GHC via IPC was too slow for interactive use).
Well, yes, I would want syntax highlighting and formatting. I would, in fact, need a built-in Haskell IDE.
Also, I recommend looking into embedding YHC. I have not had a chance to use it yet, but it looks like it is a better fit to an "interpreter-only" embedding situation than GHC--with GHC, you are getting a lot more than you seem to be asking for.
I would want to compile code as well. Compile bits of code <100 lines at a time and load them back into my app for execution. Does YHC compile and how efficiently? Thanks, Joel -- http://wagerlabs.com/