[Haskell-cafe] Haskell on the iPhone

[Karel Gardas]

Ryan Trinkle wrote:
> Rick,
> 
> I know some work has been done on JVM - iirc, Don Stewart did some work back
> in the day, www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~pls/thesis/dons-thesis.ps.gz, but I'm not
> sure how comprehensive it is.
> 
> Is anyone else interested in JVM-based Haskell targets?

Hello,

certainly I am. I think it would be great if someone might combine
Haskell code with what's already written in Java (i.e. all those app
servers or development environments). In the past I've given a try to
LambdaVM[1][2] and it looked like a sane approach to get there.
Unfortunately I'm not so power-haskell user to be able to update this
patch forward to more recent GHC. I've also submitted ticket for it[3].

Cheers,
Karel
[1]: http://wiki.brianweb.net/LambdaVM/LambdaVM
[2]: http://www.cs.rit.edu/~bja8464/lambdavm/
[3]: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2959

> 
> 
> Ryan
> 
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 20:42, Rick R <rick.richardson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> This is definitely good news!
>>
>> So...  who's doing the Android/JVM target?  ;)
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Daniel Peebles <pumpkingod at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> How exciting! I fully support the creation of a new mailing list about
>>> iphone+haskell :)
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 6:30 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.
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Best wishes,
>>>> Ryan Trinkle
>>>> President, iPwn Studios Inc.
>>>>
>>>> P.S.: If you wish to be involved in the preparation of the GHC patch or
>>> in
>>>> the creation of iPwn Studios' first game, don't hesitate to contact me
>>> by
>>>> email (ryant5000 at gmail.com), AIM (RyanT5000), or IRC (RyanT5000 on
>>>> irc.freenode.net).
>>>>
>>>>
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