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Re:GHCJS - Haskell in the Browser by wslh on Wednesday June 26, 2013 @12:15PM (#5946947)
Is incredible that we don't have an Android or iOS Haskell interpreter but we can run it on an embedded browser first.
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Re:GHCJS - Haskell in the Browser by efnx on Wednesday June 26, 2013 @01:20PM (#5947458)
I hear ARM support will be standard in the next GHC, and there currently are ports and cross-compilers. Unless you're specifically talking about ghci, which I agree needs to be ported, though that hasn't happened for the browser yet. It's possible a project like this could help that happen, though...

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/CrossCompi... https://github.com/ghc-ios/ghc

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Re:GHCJS - Haskell in the Browser by wslh on Wednesday June 26, 2013 @02:33PM (#5948027)
I am looking to the gchi because it's mainly to play and learn . I think a mobile/tablet is a nice environment to do that.
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Re:GHCJS - Haskell in the Browser by joeyh on Wednesday June 26, 2013 @01:18PM (#5947443)
There are ports of ghc to both Android and IOS. I've run ghc directly on Android. ghci not so much, so you're technically right about there being no interpreter.
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Re:GHCJS - Haskell in the Browser by geal on Wednesday June 26, 2013 @02:47PM (#5948129)
That's awesome! I have played a lot with Scala and Android, and type safety, options, futures really improved the development on Android (less code, less bugs). I would be curious to try Haskell on that platform.
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