Haskell on JVM?

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jeha picture jeha · Aug 31, 2011 · Viewed 18.6k times · Source

I'm wondering if there is some way to make Haskell run on the JVM (compiled or interpreted)?

There exists JHaskell on Sourceforge but this one seems to be empty and dead.

GHC uses LLVM as compiler backend. Would it be a good idea or possible to compile LLVM to Java bytecode? Or maybe use a different compiler backend?

Answer

Daniel Pratt picture Daniel Pratt · Sep 16, 2011

You may want to investigate Frege. Quoting from that page:

"Frege is a non-strict, pure functional programming language in the spirit of Haskell."

"Frege programs are compiled to Java and run in a JVM."

Based on a brief perusal of the language specification, Frege looks to be nearly a Haskell clone. Perhaps the phrase "in the spirit of Haskell" is simpy intended to set the proper expectation.

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