<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Brian Alliet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brian@brianweb.net">brian@brianweb.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:58:11AM +0000, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:<br>
> Is there an interest in hosting GHC on the JVM (besides my own).<br>
<br>
Yep. I wrote a JVM backend for GHC (LambdaVM). It is suffering from<br>
bit-rot though. I think this thread has re-spaked my interest in it<br>
though.<br>
<br>
> I don't think it's so hard to translate GHC's Core language to the<br>
> JVM.<br>
<br>
Definitely not. That is more or less the route I took (I actually<br>
transform STG it into yet another simple intermediate laguage that is<br>
more JVM friendly, this was more for optimization purposes though).<br>
While C-- looks fantastic for generating native code, it just didn't<br>
seem worth the effort to shoehorn it into the JVM. Although I haven't<br>
looked at any of the new backend stuff, I suspect it still won't be<br>
suitable for the JVM.<br>
<br>
-Brian<br>
_____</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Being able to integrate Haskell into a rather large Java codebase might have made me not choose Erlang. Luckily, the OTP Erlang distribution had a lot of other really desirable features for the project I was working, yet I feel the lack of strong type checking hurt my productivity a bit, especially when trying to come up with a way to specify the real INs and OUTs between the Java and the Erlang code in terms of types. </div>
<div><br></div><div>The right way to solve that problem is with a stronger specification between the Java team, and the Erlang team (aka me), however, it was still a really positive experience in the ways of functional programming, and I suppose I could have used Haskell to generate the glue between Java and Erlang had I been a better Haskeller :-).</div>
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