> On Thursday, 5 July 2018, 9:37:14 am AEST, Anthony Clayden > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Is anybody still listening here? > > I see the Hugs source distro is still around - vintage 2006, and there's > somebody curated it on github. > > I'm particularly looking for a version with TRex, but the github-curated > version doesn't seem to include that(?) > > Can anybody comment on how easy it is to compile Hugs (on Windows), compared > to compiling GHC? The instructions for Hugs make out it's reasonably easy, > whereas the instructions for GHC seem to be fraught with gotchas. But perhaps > Hugs has as many gotchas, just not documented(?) > > My impression from discussion forums when Hugs was still active, is that Hugs > source was easier to hack if you wanted to experiment with changes to the > language(?) > > What seems sad these days is that GHC is so monstrous and formidable, hardly > anybody builds experimental extensions to Haskell. > > Thank you > AntC >
Back in a day, I wanted to build an embeddable Haskell interpreter for guile-like (or js-like) uses. And yes, hugs was way more approachable then GHC - it was mostly rather clear-cut C code which was easy to rearrange and recompile. But those days most people are on managed run-times anyway (be it jvm, clr or something js-based) and those can do scripting and extensions just fine as they are. Regards, Alex D _______________________________________________ Hugs-Users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hugs-users
