[Haskell-cafe] Haskell and Java

[John Goerzen]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 05:35:20PM -0400, Brian Alliet wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 02:12:00PM +0200, Marc Weber wrote:
> > There used to be.
> > http://www.cs.rit.edu/~bja8464/lambdavm/
> > (Last darcs change log entry:
> > Sun Oct 21 03:05:20 CEST 2007  Brian Alliet <bja8464 at cs.rit.edu>
> >   * fix build for hsjava change
> > )
> 
> Sorry about this. I hit a critical mass of darcs conflicts (I look
> forward to giving git a try) around the same time I got really busy at
> work. I've been meaning to get back into it (and update it to GHC HEAD)
> but I haven't received sufficient nagging yet. Please yell if you're
> interested in LambdaVM. At the very least I should be able to help get
> whatever is in darcs compiling.

I for one would welcome the ability to compile Haskell programs into
Java bytecode.  One issue I have right now is the ability to get my
code into the hands of a wide audience, since the Haskell toolchain is
not widely installed by default.  That and I tend to use a ton of
Haskell modules, and there isn't a "just install all the deps" in ghc
yet ;-)

-- John