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Asterius – Haskell to WebAssembly Compiler

by entelechy on 2/3/19, 4:53 PM with 33 comments

• by danharaj on 2/3/19, 5:32 PM

  See also webghc which has an alternative strategy to writing a new RTS and code generator. They are cross compiling to wasm via llvm. https://webghc.github.io/2019/01/18/state-of-webghc-january-...

• by boramalper on 2/3/19, 7:03 PM

  Surprised to see that no one has mentioned GHCJS <https://github.com/ghcjs/ghcjs> still.

  I have used it[0] a year ago and despite my shallow understanding of Haskell, I have managed to port my CLI app to Haskell fairly easily!

  [0]: https://github.com/boramalper/boolexman

• by pushtheenvelope on 2/3/19, 5:55 PM

  I'm curious how they solve garbage-collection, since last time I checked WebAssembly doesn't yet support that?

• by paultopia on 2/3/19, 7:15 PM

  Client-side pandoc would actually be reaaaal interesting

• by allenleein on 2/3/19, 6:38 PM

  Another 'Haskell to WebAssembly' project:

  https://github.com/dfinity/dhc