[Haskell-cafe] Mobile app development?

KC kc1956 at gmail.com
Sat Jan 19 19:58:03 CET 2013


You would need native compilers for all the platforms and/or virtual
machine technology.

Might be easier to have the browser connect to a Haskell app.


On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Andrew Pennebaker
<andrew.pennebaker at gmail.com> wrote:
> There are currently very few options, especially free and open source
> options, when it comes to developing cross-platform mobile applications.
> It's basically web apps with JavaScript, or C++. If Haskell supported app
> development on Android, iOS, and Windows RT, that alone would bring in more
> developers.
>
> Similarly, there are very few languages for mobile development that take
> advantage of multiple cores and multiple CPUs. Haskell's `parmap` is an
> amazing selling point. Can we please prioritize mobile support? I'd much
> rather write everything in ML than PhoneGap.
>
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Regards,
KC



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