[Haskell-cafe] Haskell on the iPhone

[Don Stewart]

If you're doing it in Haskell, please feel free to keep plugging.

A new market for Haskell apps is highly welcome.

ryant5000:
> Jason,
> 
> iPwn is currently in pre-production for its first title, which will be an
> action-RPG reminiscent of Diablo and Fallout.  I'll try to keep the shameless
> plugging on Haskell-cafe to a minimum, but I make no promises :P  I will
> definitely let people know when our website is put together in some useful way.
> 
> 
> Ryan
> 
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 18:34, Jason Dagit <dagit at codersbase.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>     On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Ryan Trinkle <ryant5000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>         Dear Haskellers,
> 
>         Recently, there's been a groundswell of activity in the Haskell
>         community regarding the Haskell's use in developing iPhone games.  The
>         iPhone is a powerful, innovative platform (with a great monetization
>         scheme, to boot), and it's not surprising that many of us would want to
>         develop apps for it in our favorite language.
> 
>         I am proud to announce today that my company, iPwn Studios Inc., is
>         currently preparing to release an open source patch to GHC that allows
>         it to output binaries for iPhone OS.  The patch will be released under
>         a BSD license as soon as possible and hopefully integrated into the GHC
>         main-line in the near future.  As the first (to my knowledge)
>         Haskell-based game studio, iPwn Studios is committed to giving back to
>         the Haskell community through open source - contributing to a rising
>         tide that lifts us all.
> 
> 
>     Hi Ryan,
> 
>     This is great news!  Thanks!  Does iPwn have any up coming titles?  Perhaps
>     a blog where we could read about them so the "advertising" doesn't hit the
>     list.
>      
> 
> 
> 
>         I would like to take this opportunity to propose the creation of a
>         haskell-iphone mailing list, so that all Haskellers working with the
>         iPhone - whether for profit or for pleasure - can come together to make
>         Haskell a force to be reckoned with in the burgeoning iPhone App
>         marketplace.
> 
> 
>     Sounds good to me.  Please post back here if it gets created.
> 
>     Jason
> 
> 
> 

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