Remote GHCi

[Edward Z. Yang]

I was reviewing some history here, and I realized
that the GHCJS folks had previous implemented this:

https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2015-November/010478.html

What ever happened to this line of work?  Does remote GHCi
subsume it?

Edward

Excerpts from Simon Marlow's message of 2015-11-17 02:10:55 -0800:
> Hi folks - I've been thinking about changing the way we run interpreted 
> code so that it would be run in a separate process.  It turns out this 
> has quite a few benefits, and would let us kill some of the really 
> awkward hacks we have in GHC to work around problems that arise because 
> we're running interpreted code and the compiler on the same runtime.
> 
> I summarised the idea here: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/RemoteGHCi
> 
> I'd be interested to hear if anyone has any thoughts around this, 
> particularly if doing this would make your life difficult in some way. 
> Are people relying on dynCompileExpr for anything?
> 
> Cheers,
> Simon