[Haskell-cafe] off-topic question: why invent new Haskell-like compile-to-js functional languages when we have awesome js_of_ocaml ?

[Carter Schonwald]

No. It will be it's own package on hackage.

On Tuesday, November 12, 2013, Hans Höglund wrote:

> It is actually confirmed that GHCJS will go into an official GHC release?
> I have not been able to find that information on the GHC tracker.
>
> I have tried GHCJS, Haste and the UHC-JS in the past and found Haste the
> most easy to install and use. As far as I know, GHCJS and Haste are the
> only compilers to support all GHC extensions.
>
> Of course, this actualizes that old question of whether pervasive use of
> GHC-only extensions is A Good Thing... yet still I keep finding {-#
> LANGUAGE DeriveTraversable, ViewPatterns, TypeFamilies … #-} on top of my
> source files.
>
> Regards,
> Hans
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'allbery.b at gmail.com');>
> >wrote:
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> On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 2:32 PM, ?mer Sinan A?acan <omeragacan at gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'omeragacan at gmail.com');>
> >wrote:
>
>
> I'm aware of this, but when I first tried it a few months ago, it was
>
> not easy to use at all. Is it changed now?
>
>
>
> The biggest bump in usability will come from it not being just in HEAD
>
> with everything about building it that that implies. (next release of GHC
>
> will have it)
>
>
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