[Haskell-cafe] Standard way to translate Haskell to other languages?

[Carter Schonwald]

have you considered using GHCJS?


On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 11:08 PM, Joey <jmitdase at gmail.com> wrote:

> It would be hard, but the languages are nearly identical, so the
> translation is pretty trivial AST transforming. I'm also not looking to be
> complete: my main goal is sharing client and server-side code.
> Thanks to Malcolm Wallace for the haskell-src-extensions suggestion, it
> looks great.
>
>
> On 14-01-01 07:24 AM, Ömer Sinan Ağacan wrote:
>
>> Compiling Haskell to another language is huge effort, maybe instead of
>> this you can compile Haskell to JS using GHCJS or Fay, and then use
>> Elm FFI to use compiled Haskell functions.
>>
>> ---
>> Ömer Sinan Ağacan
>> http://osa1.net
>>
>>
>> 2014/1/1 Joey <jmitdase at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> I'm looking at writing a simple Haskell to Elm translator. Thankfully,
>>> the
>>> Elm compiler is in Haskell, so I'm just trying transforming syntax trees.
>>>
>>> I'm wondering, is there a standard way to do this sort of thing? Template
>>> Haskell looked promising, but it seems there isn't much of a way to do
>>> introspection on function definition. Has there been any work/progress on
>>> this?
>>>
>>> The GHC API seemed useful for compiling, but it seems tricky to use, and
>>> I
>>> haven't been able to find many tutorials for this sort of thing. I could
>>> just be looking in the wrong place.
>>>
>>> What are the ways I could go about this? Are there any similar projects I
>>> could use as reference? What packages are useful for generating and
>>> manipulating Haskell ASTs? Does anybody have experience in this area they
>>> could share?
>>>
>>> I've posted a similar question to the Haskell Reddit at
>>> http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1u55rl/
>>> standard_way_to_translate_haskell_to_other/.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Joey Eremondi
>>>
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