[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Utrecht Haskell Compiler (UHC), version 1.1.0

[John Van Enk]

Can UHC self-host yet? How does the runtime compare to GHC's? I suppose I
could just go look... :)

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Atze Dijkstra <atze at cs.uu.nl> wrote:

>            Utrecht Haskell Compiler -- second release 1.1.0
>            ================================================
>
>
> The UHC team is happy to announce the second public release of the
> Utrecht Haskell Compiler (UHC). UHC supports almost allmost all
> Haskell98 and Haskell2010 features plus some experimental extensions. The
> compiler runs on MacOSX, Windows (cygwin), and various Unix flavors.
>
> This second release has the following highlights relative to the
> previous first release:
>
>  * Supports most of the Haskell2010 features.
>
>  * Generic deriving [1].
>
>  * UHC knows about packages, and Cabal version 1.9.3 and later have
>    basic support for UHC, so that Cabal can be used to build UHC packages.
>
>  * For the default backend libraries are provided until including
>    package haskell98.
>
>  * The runtime system is no longer dependent on Boehm garbage
>    collector, but uses UHCs own, a swap space collector allowing
>    parameterization with backend specifics.
>
>  * More programs from the nofib test suite compile and run.
>
>  * Many smaller and larger problems fixed.
>
> For more info see http://www.cs.uu.nl/wiki/UHC
>
>
> Getting started & Download
> --------------------------
>
> UHC is available for download as source distribution via the UHC home
> page:
>
>        http://www.cs.uu.nl/wiki/UHC
>
> Here you will also find instructions to get started and the specifics
> of what UHC can and cannot do.
>
>
> Status of the implementation
> ----------------------------
>
> Over the past year much effort by many people has been put into
> improving UHC, in particular to make it compile and run more library
> modules and test programs. Although the UHC project is very much work in
> progress overall reliability has improved, bugs have been fixed, and
> some Hackage packages compile.
>
>
> Warning
> -------
>
> Although we think that the compiler is stable enough to compile
> substantial Haskell programs, we do not recommend yet to use it for any
> serious development work in Haskell. We ourselves use the GHC as a
> development platform! We think however that it provides a great platform
> for experimenting with language implementations, language extensions,
> etc.
>
>
> Mailing lists
> -------------
>
> For UHC users and developers respectively:
>
>        http://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/uhc-users
>        http://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/uhc-developers
>
>
> Bug reporting
> -------------
>
> Please report bugs at:
>
>        http://code.google.com/p/uhc/issues/list
>
>
> The UHC Team
>
>
>
> [1] Jose Pedro Magalhaes, Atze Dijkstra, Johan Jeuring, and Andres Loeh.
> A generic deriving mechanism for Haskell.
> http://dreixel.net/research/pdf/gdmh_draft.pdf (see Section 7.1 for the
> discussion on constrained datatypes)
>
>
>
>
>                - Atze -
>
> Atze Dijkstra, Department of Information and Computing Sciences. /|\
> Utrecht University, PO Box 80089, 3508 TB Utrecht, Netherlands. / | \
> Tel.: +31-30-2534118/1454 | WWW  : http://www.cs.uu.nl/~atze . /--|  \
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>
>
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