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

[Carter Schonwald]

oh, in that case you should check out three-peny gui!
hackage.haskell.org/package/threepenny-gui



On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 1:06 AM, Joey <jmitdase at gmail.com> wrote:

>  It looked interesting, but when I initially started my project (about
> six months ago) it seemed pretty immature. It also seems to be less focused
> on graphical programming, which Elm is superb at with its FRP. I'd also
> heard GHCJS was pretty heavyweight, getting the entire runtime going. I'm
> really only using JS for rednering.
>
>
> On 14-01-01 10:19 PM, Carter Schonwald wrote:
>
> 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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