[Haskell-cafe] GHC for mobile devices?

Andrew Pennebaker andrew.pennebaker at gmail.com
Sat Nov 10 06:32:25 CET 2012


Awesome! Jeffrey Scofield has ported OCaml to
iOS<http://psellos.com/ocaml/compile-to-iossim.html>,
so there's also experience there.

On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 11:46 PM, Kristopher Micinski <krismicinski at gmail.com
> wrote:

> If you have interest in doing this, I have quite a bit of experience
> in Android hacking at the system level and above and would be glad to
> talk about what might need to happen.  (Though I don't know the GHC
> internals / toolchain so well.)
>
> One potential choice is Scala, though from my limited experience
> that's a very rough imitation of the uses for Haskell.  (Though,
> obviously it works mostly out of the box because of the JVM compiler
> target..)
>
> http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Android
>
> I've been writing up some thoughts on the Android activity lifecycle
> already interpreted with respect to FP, apps are quite functional
> already for a variety of reasons.
>
> kris
>
> On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 8:51 PM, Andrew Pennebaker
> <andrew.pennebaker at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'd love to use Haskell directly for making mobiles apps. How can we make
> > this happen, porting GHC to Android, iOS, and Windows Phone?
> >
> > --
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Andrew Pennebaker
> > www.yellosoft.us
> >
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-- 
Cheers,

Andrew Pennebaker
www.yellosoft.us
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