
23: Ben Gamari
The Haskell Interlude
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The Future of Web Asthma
HG currently is a for largely historical reasons, still makes a lot of assumptions about its platform. So recently, Sylvan Henry and John Erickson have been looking at lifting this. template Haskell in particular poses a real problem when it comes to cross compilation. And if you're trying to run a 64-bit compiler on a 32-bit platform, but you're targeting a 32- Bit platform? It's not actually all that clear what the splices are supposed to do. You know, I think we've seen even just with GHS, what people can do, which GHS is great, but it has so much friction in using it.
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