[Haskell-cafe] Batteries included (Was: GHC is a monopoly compiler)

[Heinrich Apfelmus]

>> HyperHaskell
>
> Nifty!
>
> - How does this compare to jupyter (ipython) with the haskell kernel?

The overall goal is obviously very similar. To me, the main differences are

  * HyperHaskell should be easy to install
    (e.g. only cabal and a binary download)

  * HyperHaskell behaves more like a desktop application, e.g. worksheets
    are loaded from and saved to the local file system.

The latter point is actually the main reason why I couldn't get into 
Jupyter at all: It insisted that I manage worksheets in some kind of 
database in the browser. Ugh! (There may be other front-ends nowadays, 
but last I checked, I didn't find anything official or popular, that's 
why I decided to write my own thing.)

On the flip side, HyperHaskell is specialized to Haskell -- you can't 
use it with other languages.

> - Is it on GitHub or somewhere?

Not yet, it's still in the "hype" phase. ;-) Expect the following location

   https://github.com/HeinrichApfelmus/hyper-haskell

to fill with code in a week or two.


Best regards,
Heinrich Apfelmus

--
http://apfelmus.nfshost.com


Moritz Angermann wrote:
>>  http://apfelmus.nfshost.com/temp/hyper-haskell-sneak-peek.png
>>
>>
>> It's a project that I'm currently working on, called
>>
>>    HyperHaskell
>>    - the strongly hyped Haskell interpreter -
>>
>> Well, it's supposed to be strongly hyped, but currently, only few people know about it. Could you give me a hand with, uh, hyping this? I'm not good at this.
>>
> 
> Nifty!
> 
> - How does this compare to jupyter (ipython) with the haskell kernel?
> - Is it on GitHub or somewhere?
> 
> Cheers,
>  Moritz
> 
> 
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