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

[Aycan iRiCAN]

church% hastec --version
0.2.9

church% cat > Hello.hs
module Main where
main = print "Hello world."

church% hastec --opt-google-closure --start=asap Hello.hs
Compiling Main into .
Linking Hello.js
Linking Main
Linking GHC.IO.Handle.Text
Linking Haste.Handle
Linking GHC.Tuple
Linking GHC.Types
Linking GHC.Show
Linking GHC.List
Linking GHC.Base
Linking GHC.IO
Running the Google Closure compiler on Hello.js...

church% nodejs Hello.js
"Hello world."


Hello.js 5750 Bytes (46746 bytes without google closure).



On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Anton Nikishaev <me at lelf.lu> wrote:

> Ömer Sinan Ağacan <omeragacan at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > That's great news. I wonder if that means it'll be end for Fay and
> > similar languages?
>
> GHCJS's Hello World is 2.1M worth of javascript (well, that's how it was
> several month ago, maybe it's better now?). And even google closure
> compiled with advanced optimizations it's ~500K.
>
> Fay's output is 5K after google-closure-mumbo-jumbo.
>
>
>
> > 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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>
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