[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Salsa: A .NET Bridge for Haskell

[Don Stewart]

This could be a game changer.

Great work Andrew!!

-- Don

andrew.appleyard:
> I'd like to announce the first release of Salsa, an experimental Haskell
> library that allows Haskell programs to access .NET libraries.
> 
> Here's a taste:
> 
>   > type Hello.hs
>   import Foreign.Salsa
>   import Bindings
> 
>   main = withCLR $ do
>       _Console # _writeLine ("Hello .NET World!")
> 
>   > type Hello.imports
>   System.Console: WriteLine
> 
>   > msbuild
>   > .\hello
>   Hello .NET World!
> 
> Salsa operates by loading the .NET runtime into your Haskell process and 
> using the FFI (and run-time code generation) to marshall calls between 
> the .NET and Haskell runtimes.  It includes a code generator and a 
> type-level library (which uses type families) to provide type-safe 
> access to .NET libraries in Haskell with C#-style method overload 
> resolution and implicit conversions.
> 
> The adventurous can find version 0.1.0.1 of Salsa on Hackage [1], the 
> darcs repository on code.haskell.org [2], and some (limited) 
> documentation on the Haskell wiki [3].
> 
> The library is experimental and by no means complete (refer to the wiki 
> page [3] for some of its limitations).  Be prepared to end up with 
> incomprehensible error messages and/or a broken compiler! :-)
> 
> At the moment you'll need Windows, GHC 6.8, and version 3.5 of the .NET
> Framework to use it.
> 
> Have fun!
> 
> [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/Salsa
> [2] http://code.haskell.org/Salsa
> [3] http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Salsa
> 
> --
> Andrew
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