[Haskell-cafe] Haskell on the iPhone

[Rick R]

There seems to be quite a bit more interest now in supporting platforms
other than win/*nix on x86 these days*.
Maybe now there will be sufficient motivation to make the fundamental
changes required. Caveat: I have absolutely no idea of the scope or
complexity of said changes.  I will look through the LambdaVM code (and iPwn
when available)  to get an idea.

Perhaps we can devote a section of Haskell Wiki to generalizing Haskell for
multiple targets?

The industry has been clamoring for a unified solution to all of the mobile
platforms out there. If Haskell can provide that, it would be a huge win for
its popularity.

*  Thanks primarily to the iPhone and Android systems. I think currently
iPhone is swaying the most votes but Android is due to be on a dozen phones
and possibly even a netbook.  (I have heard two announcements and one
cancellation with regards to the netbooks).


On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 8:34 AM, John A. De Goes <john at n-brain.net> wrote:

>
> I have strong interest in Haskell on the JVM. Not for Android, however.
>
> Seems like every time this topic comes up, the consensus is that it's not
> easy to support new targets with GHC, but that "work is underway" to make
> such developments easier.
>
> Regards,
>
> John A. De Goes
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> On Jun 22, 2009, at 11:23 PM, 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<http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/%7Epls/thesis/dons-thesis.ps.gz>,
> but I'm not sure how comprehensive it is.
>
> Is anyone else interested in JVM-based Haskell targets?
>
>
> 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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