[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]

Anyone tried this same test on GHCJS?

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Ömer Sinan Ağacan
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2013/11/13 Aycan iRiCAN <iricanaycan at gmail.com>:
> 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
>>
>> --
>> lelf
>>
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