Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC for mobile devices?

I would be so very happy to be able to program Haskell Android programs. I think the steps we'd need are to 1. Port GHC to ARM (done already?) and 2. Create a JVM calling convention for GHC (using JNI? I have no idea). Short of actually making a new calling convention for the JVM, maybe we could use the JNI to create a thin C wrapper that has the code we want to import normally. Unfortunately I have no idea of where to start and very little experience with Android other than firing up Eclipse, playing around with simple applications and being very dissatisfied. On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Andrew Pennebaker < andrew.pennebaker@gmail.com> wrote:

Awesome! Jeffrey Scofield has ported OCaml to iOShttp://psellos.com/ocaml/compile-to-iossim.html, so there's also experience there.

On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 11:46 PM, Kristopher Micinski < krismicinski@gmail.com> wrote:

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If you have interest in doing this, I have quite a bit of experience in Android hacking at the system level and above and would be glad to talk about what might need to happen. (Though I don't know the GHC internals / toolchain so well.)

One potential choice is Scala, though from my limited experience that's a very rough imitation of the uses for Haskell. (Though, obviously it works mostly out of the box because of the JVM compiler target..)

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Android

I've been writing up some thoughts on the Android activity lifecycle already interpreted with respect to FP, apps are quite functional already for a variety of reasons.

kris

On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 8:51 PM, Andrew Pennebaker wrote:

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I'd love to use Haskell directly for making mobiles apps. How can we make this happen, porting GHC to Android, iOS, and Windows Phone?

-- Cheers,

Andrew Pennebaker www.yellosoft.us

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