Announcing the York Haskell Compiler - a Haskell 98 compiler with roots in nhc98. It's not totally finished, but is getting there quickly, and could well be of interest to Haskell developers. Webpage: http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~ndm/yhc/ Project Blog: http://yhc06.blogspot.com/ Project Wiki: http://haskell.org/hawiki/Yhc Darcs: darcs get http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/darcs/yhc As many of you now know, the York Haskell Compiler project is now getting well and truely off the ground. For those of you that don't know, I'll give you a quick summary. Over the last few months Tom Shackell has rewritten the back end of nhc98, to create the yhc compiler. The new compiler is extremely lightweight, runs fast, and generates code that runs at a speed roughly midway between hugs and ghc. Better than that though, the compiler generates bytecode to be run on a virtual machine, and thus can create portable binaries! The virtual machine is written in C and thus can bootstrap the whole compiler system on just about any platform (it's already known to work on linux, windows and OS X). Several problems that nhc had have been addressed in the rewrite including the hi-mem bug, and making it work on Windows (without cygwin). There is still a lot of work to do though - contributions welcome! Thanks Tom Davie (and the rest of the yhc team)