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The JavaScript Problem (haskell.org)
3 points by sebg on June 25, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



https://wiki.haskell.org/index.php?title=The_JavaScript_Prob... does this need a (2020)?

I'm not following this closely, but I have noticed that there have been quite a few developments lately, and the ghc manual has sections on FFI and the JavaScript Backend[0] (also WebAssembly), which I take it means one can use plain GHC without ghcjs to run Haskell in the browser. There was also an announcement[1] two years ago saying

> the next release of GHC will be able to emit code that runs in web browsers without requiring any extra tools, enabling Haskell for both front-end and back-end web applications

[0] https://ghc.gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/doc/users_guide/javascrip...

[1] https://engineering.iog.io/2022-12-13-ghc-js-backend-merged/




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