Re: [Haskell-cafe] Mobile app development?

I don't believe that was really the point of the C compiler, and I'd suspect you'd have a hard time with the runtime. By the way, the Android APIs aren't really meant to be used by native code: the only real use for native code in Android is GPU code and math code (think games and DSP-type programs). Wrapping the libraries for use by native code is *possible*, but getting it right will be very hard: it's not like you're going to have a simple C library which lets you touch Android's `View` hierarchy, for example. On top of that, you'd also want to have a "true" functional interface to Android's API: you probably don't want to just use the Java API verbatim. What was your implementation plan for doing this, should you get a runtime up for Haskell code? I'd guess that you can pretty easily get a Haskell program to *run* on the device from the device's command line. But I'd also guess that getting it to play well with Android will be a *lot* of work. I don't really have the time or GHC internals experience to do this, but if someone wanted help on it, I'd be interested. The web interface idea is okay, but obviously you're punting on speed if you do that. You might look into the Boot2Gecko project at Mozilla, it has similar aspirations. Kris On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Andrew Pennebaker wrote:

Can we un-deprecate GHC's ability to compile to C code? C may be the best option to bridge to mobile, as Android, iOS, and Windows RT do support C/C++ apps.

On Jan 22, 2013 2:14 PM, "Dan Choi" wrote:

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What about the option of using Haskell's Parsec or AttoParsec to implement a Haskell-ish language that compiles down not to machine code but to Objective C or Android Java? Like how CoffeeScript compiles down to JavaScript.

On Saturday, January 19, 2013 1:58:03 PM UTC-5, Casey Hawthorne wrote:

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You would need native compilers for all the platforms and/or virtual machine technology.

Might be easier to have the browser connect to a Haskell app.

On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Andrew Pennebaker wrote:

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There are currently very few options, especially free and open source options, when it comes to developing cross-platform mobile applications. It's basically web apps with JavaScript, or C++. If Haskell supported app development on Android, iOS, and Windows RT, that alone would bring in more developers.

Similarly, there are very few languages for mobile development that take advantage of multiple cores and multiple CPUs. Haskell's `parmap` is an amazing selling point. Can we please prioritize mobile support? I'd much rather write everything in ML than PhoneGap.

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