Turbo Haskell

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82 points | by pjmlp 19 hours ago ago

17 comments

  • BalinKing 2 hours ago

    Only tangentially related, but I'm reminded of Frege[0], a Haskell dialect for the JVM that I stumbled across at one point and thought looked really cool.... I see recent commits but the releases are all really old, so I can't tell what the state of the project is.

    [0] https://github.com/frege/frege

    • kinow an hour ago

      I hadn't thought of Fregue in some years! I helped them with their logo and some smaller issues back in the time. I will check out the latest commits to see what's being updated (hopefully not only dependabot:) ).

  • asplake an hour ago

    Odd — server can't be found

  • kitd 2 hours ago

    Odd that the FFI list didn't include Java given the JVM target. Typo or oversight?

  • fouc 2 hours ago

    like Turbo Pascal?

    • quchen 2 hours ago

      Part of the name was a joke about people often mishearing Haskell as Pascal, Ed told me a couple of years ago. I think it might have been at ZuriHac back when it was at Google Zurich, so 2016-ish?

    • bmacho 2 hours ago

      No it's a not blue TUI IDE but a Haskell on JVM. Author wasted that concept :|

      • nathell 43 minutes ago

        And it has to weigh in under 1 MB and have sub-second compilation times.

        • bmacho 33 minutes ago

          Since there is MicroHS Haskell compiler in 0.5 MB space nothing is stopping people to wire it together with TurboVision/ncurses. Apart from that the name is taken now.

  • vocatan 12 hours ago

    Avast blocks the site from being loaded.

    • throwaway81523 9 hours ago

      It's a Haskell to JVM compiler repurposing some parts of GHC. Pretty cute but evokes "why?".

  • therepanic 21 minutes ago

    around 4k commits in a week.

    i am not sure anyone actually understands what is going on under the hood of the project. looks like average slop.

    >> Exactly a week ago (as a joke), I started writing THC,

    you? i hope you have read at least something of what your agent wrote about the project.

    • vintermann 17 minutes ago

      Edward Kmett is a very respected Haskell developer.

      • therepanic 12 minutes ago

        i see, but my statement does not become false because of it. his agent pushes several commits an hour in a continuous loop, meaning this respected developer is not involved in the process at all.