[Haskell-cafe] Mobile app development?

[Bob Ippolito]

LLVM probably already supports producing native code for all of the
architectures for the mobile platforms. The non-trivial parts are probably
getting GHC to cross-compile and wrapping all of the libraries you need for
the platforms you want to support.


On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 12:41 PM, KC <kc1956 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Then it looks as if the easier implementation would be small Haskell
> VM's for the various platforms with a byte code compiler.
> I do not believe the JVM supports all the optimizations GHC can do.
>
> Oh wait!
> Can the LLVM be easily ported to do this?
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Andrew Pennebaker
> <andrew.pennebaker at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Might be easier to have the browser connect to a Haskell app.
> >
> >
> > Not all apps can be run as thin clients. 3D video games and other
> intensive
> > programs aren't easily done as thin clients. Mobile Haskell would be very
> > powerful, because concurrency and parallelism aren't something the
> C-family
> > languages are supporting that well.
> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Andrew Pennebaker
> >> <andrew.pennebaker at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > 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.
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > Cheers,
> >> >
> >> > Andrew Pennebaker
> >> > www.yellosoft.us
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> >>
> >> --
> >> --
> >> Regards,
> >> KC
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Andrew Pennebaker
> > www.yellosoft.us
>
>
>
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> KC
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