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

[David McBride]

Consider me hyped.  I could never get jupyter to work.

On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 4:22 AM, Heinrich Apfelmus <
apfelmus at quantentunnel.de> wrote:

> 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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