[Haskell-beginners] Javascript with Haskell

[Patrick Mylund Nielsen]

On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 9:50 AM, David McBride <toad3k at gmail.com> wrote:

> There's actually some really good stuff for this now.  I have experimented
> a bit with haste.  Cabal install it, then use the haste-inst to install
> haskell libraries as javascript, then compile your program with it and then
> load it into your browser.  The only downside is that some lower level
> functions don't work, so  like I couldn't use the vector library in an
> application I had already written.  But if you keep that in mind while you
> are developing it works pretty well.  You should be able to do a text
> adventure no problem.
>
> There is also GHCJS which is set to release on the next ghc release (it
> only works with new versions of ghc) which promises to go even further to
> get those last few bits of code working.  But of course it isn't out just
> yet.
>
>
Not for nothing, but they have a Vagrant build that makes it really easy to
get up and running with GHCJS:
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1fvv5q/ghcjs_introduction_concurrent_haskell_in_the/caeifun


>
> On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 4:30 PM, Franco <franco00 at gmx.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello mailing list,
>>
>>     I am developing a small text adventure game, which now runs nicely on
>> a
>> Linux terminal. I was going to ask a friend of mine to compile it on
>> Windows,
>> but then I thought: "Wouldn't it be awesome if people could run that in
>> their
>> browser?"
>>
>> I searched a bit and found this little example game [1]. As you can see it
>> was written in Haskell but you can play it in your browser.
>>
>> Now, to the problem: it seems to me that the code requires UHC (Utrecht
>> Haskell Compiler), which I don't have (I use GHC).
>> What are the alternatives (if any)? As stated above, I am not going to
>> code
>> anything complex graphic wise, so the simpler the merrier!
>> Thanks
>>
>> -F
>>
>>
>> [1] http://jshaskell.blogspot.de/2012/09/breakout.html
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