You should go for a long run with GHC, it has most advanced extension system and you'll be able to integrate your extensions with existing codebase if they come out successful. If you still want to work with hackablel compiler look at jhc https://github.com/jimcrayne/jhc and it's fork ajhc https://github.com/ajhc/ajhc they are very low-level but codebase very small and you can grasp whole system very quickly to start hacking On 08/12/2016 10:58 PM, MarLinn via Haskell-Cafe wrote:
So I have some crazy ideas for language extensions/reinterpretations and ways I might try to implement them. But ghc is a complex beast and my crazy ideas have too many interrelationships for a noob like me to try to bold them onto it. After all, I have never worked on ghc - or any compiler for that matter. I did look at the code, but I reckon maybe I should gather some experience first before diving into that one. It would be even worse to offload my ideas onto someone else before I at least tried them and got some feedback. No fun for anyone.
But of course I don't want to start from scratch. As fun as that could be, there's no need to reinvent all the wheels just for a different axle. And I hear rumors that there are other Haskell compilers out there, even if most of them live in the shadow/slipstream of their brother. Alas, I don't have any idea what their statuses and philosophies are.
So maybe you can help me here: Have you experienced any of the alternative compilers as especially easy for a newcomer to pick up and play around with? If it helps, I would be satisfied with plain Haskell2010 or even Haskell 98, although some GADT and/or TypeFamilies code to butcher would be nice, too. The ideas are mostly about larger scale structures like whole functions. One representative example idea is "Could it help the implementation - and does it even make sense - to view a module as just a weirdly written zero parameter type class?" As I said: crazy ideas.
I'm thankful for any thoughts and ideas.
MarLinn
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