[Haskell-cafe] off-topic question: why invent new Haskell-like compile-to-js functional languages when we have awesome js_of_ocaml ?

[Ömer Sinan Ağacan]

That's great news. I wonder if that means it'll be end for Fay and
similar languages?

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Ömer Sinan Ağacan
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2013/11/12 Patrick Mylund Nielsen <haskell at patrickmylund.com>:
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Jeremy Shaw <jeremy at n-heptane.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Ömer Sinan Ağacan <omeragacan at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > I'm aware of this, but when I first tried it a few months ago, it was
>> > not easy to use at all. Is it changed now?
>>
>> Last I heard, Luite was waiting for GHC 7.8 to be released because it
>> contains changes that will allow him to upload ghcjs to hackage and
>> then you will be able to just cabal install it. I could be wrong
>> though.
>
>
> As far as I know, that's correct.
>
> The easiest way to install and use it right now is using their Vagrant
> setup:
> http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1fvv5q/ghcjs_introduction_concurrent_haskell_in_the/caeifun