AFAICT this language is less featureful than coffee-script, its only advantage being the syntax is slightly more haskellish.<div> <div>Of course, it does provides a technique for inserting haskell values into javascript, and having javascript in haskell code. I think it would be better to add these features to the more widely used coffee script using that part of JMacro and/or Yesod's similar template tools.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The other option of course is to compile haskell into javascript using ghc [1] or llvm [2], but these solutions are still immature. The great thing about coffee-script is that the language was designed as a super-set and almost everything compiles down to very readable (easy to debug) javascript, something that is harder to do when compiling an entirely different language.</div>
<div>[1] <a href="https://github.com/sviperll/ghcjs">https://github.com/sviperll/ghcjs</a></div><div>[2] <a href="http://code.google.com/p/emscripten/wiki/FAQ">code.google.com/p/emscripten/wiki/FAQ</a></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Jeff Polakow <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeff.polakow@db.com">jeff.polakow@db.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Hello,</font>
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<br><tt><font size="2"><div class="im">> Regarding coffee-script: I<br>
> think having a Haskell equivalent would be an awesome tool. This could<br>
> also be another great moment for the Haskell web community to work<br>
> together.<br>
> <br></div>
Please have a look at jmacro.</font></tt>
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<br><tt><font size="2"><a href="http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Jmacro" target="_blank">http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Jmacro</a></font></tt>
<br><tt><font size="2"><a href="http://hackage.haskell.org/package/jmacro" target="_blank">http://hackage.haskell.org/package/jmacro</a></font></tt>
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<br><tt><font size="2">-Jeff</font></tt>
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