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Re:Haskell Foundation 2026 Update by drewfax on Thursday May 21, 2026 @07:55AM (#48221182)
I tried building a cross platform shared library. I still couldn't get GHC to generate the library with Haskell's Runtime (RTS) statically linked. Tried multiple AI models and nothing could make it work. Eventually gave up after a month.

Also there's no support for Android and iOS, atleast not without spending months in recompiling GHC with haskell.nix or other third party projects.

Eventually I switched to Rust. It's tooling is so mature that I can focus on developing than compiling GHC.

Despite these demerits, I love Haskell language and lazy eval. I wish I can use it one day.

Re:Haskell Foundation 2026 Update by mietek on Thursday May 21, 2026 @08:12AM (#48221377)
I built an example project showing how to build shared libraries in Haskell, in 2019.

https://github.com/mietek/haskell-so-example