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

[Carter Schonwald]

thats up to the users :)

that said, having full ghc haskell to target JS will be pretty amazing :)


On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Ömer Sinan Ağacan <omeragacan at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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
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