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[Manuel M T Chakravarty]

I’ll only arrive Wednesday during the day, so maybe sometime second half of the week?

> Moritz Angermann <moritz.angermann at gmail.com>:
> 
> I'm around all week. I actually do have remote ghci on my todo list ;-)
> 
> Cheers,
>  Moritz
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On 4 Sep 2017, at 11:21 AM, Simon Marlow <marlowsd at gmail.com <mailto:marlowsd at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>> I have a vested interest in the cross-compilation story because it's very related to Remote GHCi, so I'd love to join in if you have a discussion about that :)
>> 
>> On 4 September 2017 at 11:16, Manuel M T Chakravarty <chak at justtesting.org <mailto:chak at justtesting.org>> wrote:
>> +1 for a lighting talk on that! (You can tell the organisers that ;)
>> 
>> Also, we should make sure to meet and talk about cross-compilation and GHC for iOS :)
>> 
>> Manuel
>> 
>>> Moritz Angermann <moritz.angermann at gmail.com <mailto:moritz.angermann at gmail.com>>:
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> not sure if this is noteworthy:
>>> 
>>> The following is or will hopefully make(*) it
>>> into 8.4 as well
>>> 
>>> - (1) iserv-remote (run iserv on a remote device over the network)
>>> - (2) arm / aarch64 linker for elf and mach-o
>>> - (3*) `-staticlib` support for Linux and BSD derivatives (was darwin only): 
>>> - (4*) `-llvmng` new llvm bitcode code gen
>>> - (5*) refactored llvm pipeline
>>> 
>>> This essentially is all part of making GHC natively
>>> support cross compiling (including support for Template Haskell) to android/iOS/RaspberryPi.
>>> 
>>> I hope to give a lighting talk around those, if I get a slot.
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>>  Moritz
>>> 
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>> 
>>> On 4 Sep 2017, at 8:01 AM, Iavor Diatchki <iavor.diatchki at gmail.com <mailto:iavor.diatchki at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hello,
>>>> 
>>>> Trevor Elliott and I have been slowly working on implementing Simon M's  "Mutable Constructor Fields" proposal [1].
>>>> 
>>>> The current state of the code is here:
>>>> https://github.com/yav/ghc/tree/wip/mutable-fields <https://github.com/yav/ghc/tree/wip/mutable-fields>
>>>> 
>>>> I am not sure if this would be ready in time for 8.4 as I don't know what the time-line looks like, and also, the actual proposal is still in the process of being reviewed by the GHC committee.
>>>> 
>>>> -Iavor 
>>>> 
>>>> [1] https://github.com/simonmar/ghc-proposals/blob/mutable-fields/proposals/0000-mutable-fields.rst <https://github.com/simonmar/ghc-proposals/blob/mutable-fields/proposals/0000-mutable-fields.rst>
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 2:15 PM Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs <ghc-devs at haskell.org <mailto:ghc-devs at haskell.org>> wrote:
>>>> Ben, Simon, and ghc-devs
>>>> 
>>>> I have to write slides for the GHC status talk in the Haskell Implementor’s meeting.
>>>> 
>>>> Usually we have
>>>> 
>>>> Current status (current release)
>>>> What’s cooking for the next release
>>>> GHC community comments
>>>> As background we have
>>>> 
>>>> Our Apr 17 status page <https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Status/Apr17>
>>>> Our 8.2 release notes <https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.2.1/docs/html/users_guide/8.2.1-notes.html>
>>>> Our 8.4 status page <https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Status/GHC-8.4.1>
>>>> What would you put under (1-3)?  Anything you’d like to see highlighted?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Simon
>>>> 
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