<p dir="ltr">Can we un-deprecate GHC's ability to compile to C code? C may be the best option to bridge to mobile, as Android, iOS, and Windows RT do support C/C++ apps.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 22, 2013 2:14 PM, "Dan Choi" <<a href="mailto:dhchoi@gmail.com">dhchoi@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><br></div>What about the option of using Haskell's Parsec or AttoParsec to implement a Haskell-ish language that compiles down not to machine code but to Objective C or Android Java? Like how CoffeeScript compiles down to JavaScript.<div>
<br></div><div><div><br><br>On Saturday, January 19, 2013 1:58:03 PM UTC-5, Casey Hawthorne wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">You would need native compilers for all the platforms and/or virtual
<br>machine technology.
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<br>Might be easier to have the browser connect to a Haskell app.
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<br>On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Andrew Pennebaker
<br><<a>andrew.p...@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
<br>> There are currently very few options, especially free and open source
<br>> options, when it comes to developing cross-platform mobile applications.
<br>> It's basically web apps with JavaScript, or C++. If Haskell supported app
<br>> development on Android, iOS, and Windows RT, that alone would bring in more
<br>> developers.
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<br>> Similarly, there are very few languages for mobile development that take
<br>> advantage of multiple cores and multiple CPUs. Haskell's `parmap` is an
<br>> amazing selling point. Can we please prioritize mobile support? I'd much
<br>> rather write everything in ML than PhoneGap.
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