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

Tue Nov 12 17:38:46 UTC 2013

On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Jeremy Shaw <jeremy at n-heptane.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Ömer Sinan Ağacan <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?
>
> Last I heard, Luite was waiting for GHC 7.8 to be released because it
> contains changes that will allow him to upload ghcjs to hackage and
> then you will be able to just cabal install it. I could be wrong
> though.
>

As far as I know, that's correct.

The easiest way to install and use it right now is using their Vagrant
setup:
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1fvv5q/ghcjs_introduction_concurrent_haskell_in_the/caeifun
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