On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Sönke Hahn
Hi all!
I haven't tried the tool myself, but it seems interesting to the Haskell efforts to compile to JavaScript:
I saw this same article this morning. I personally am not so interested in compiling Haskell to run as Javascript, though it definitely sounds like a nice idea. I was wondering if we can somehow build Haskell/LLVM bytecode bundles, similar to how Java code gets distributed as JARs. Imagine being able to do any/all of these: * Build a bundle from any package on Hackage. * Have a utility that can convert this to Javascript via emscripten * Create a Haskell runtime for different OSes that can run these bundles, and comes complete with GTK/Qt and a few other basic libraries. * Convert a bundle into something that can run natively on the JVM or CLR. * Create a "Haskell Web Start" where Haskell bundles can be run with a single click from the browser. This is far from my area of expertise, but I know that I could put such a system to good use. A lot of this stuff (running on JVM/CLR for instance) already has a good head start from efforts in the LLVM world. Michael