[Haskell] Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Salsa: A .NET Bridge for Haskell

[Alfonso Acosta]

Great! Are there any chances of getting support for non-Win32
platforms with Mono?

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Andrew Appleyard
<andrew.appleyard at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd like to announce the first release of Salsa, an experimental Haskell
> library that allows Haskell programs to access .NET libraries.
>
> Here's a taste:
>
>  > type Hello.hs
>  import Foreign.Salsa
>  import Bindings
>
>  main = withCLR $ do
>      _Console # _writeLine ("Hello .NET World!")
>
>  > type Hello.imports
>  System.Console: WriteLine
>
>  > msbuild
>  > .\hello
>  Hello .NET World!
>
> Salsa operates by loading the .NET runtime into your Haskell process and
> using the FFI (and run-time code generation) to marshall calls between the
> .NET and Haskell runtimes.  It includes a code generator and a type-level
> library (which uses type families) to provide type-safe access to .NET
> libraries in Haskell with C#-style method overload resolution and implicit
> conversions.
>
> The adventurous can find version 0.1.0.1 of Salsa on Hackage [1], the darcs
> repository on code.haskell.org [2], and some (limited) documentation on the
> Haskell wiki [3].
>
> The library is experimental and by no means complete (refer to the wiki page
> [3] for some of its limitations).  Be prepared to end up with
> incomprehensible error messages and/or a broken compiler! :-)
>
> At the moment you'll need Windows, GHC 6.8, and version 3.5 of the .NET
> Framework to use it.
>
> Have fun!
>
> [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/Salsa
> [2] http://code.haskell.org/Salsa
> [3] http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Salsa
>
> --
> Andrew
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