Simon Peyton Jones <simon.peytonjo...@gmail.com> writes: > Ben, Matthew, Moritz, and friends > > Is this wiki page about architectures still accurate? > https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/wikis/platforms > Hi Simon,
Indeed there were a few inaccuracies on that page; I have fixed these and generally cleaned up the page. > For example, ARM is not Tier 1, or "apple silicon". > > Yet I know some of our developers have invested lots of effort in other > architectures, so maybe those efforts are not reflected here. > Fairly recently there has been work on RISC-V (rv64) and PowerPC (ppc64le), as well as some work on s390x via LLVM. However, I wouldn't consider any of these Tier 1. > Relevant is Moritz's post about 32-bit architectures > <https://discourse.haskell.org/t/running-project-built-on-raspberry-pi-with-cabal-gives-weird-errors/2429/6> > . > > We should in due course add Javascript and Web Assembly as Tier 1 back ends? > Indeed, that is the plan although 9.6 will rather ship these as Tier 2 targets. > Are we saying "if your customer bases uses Tier 2 architectures, you can't > rely on GHC from one release to the next"? I wonder if there are companies > for which Tier-2 architectures are mission-critical. Mis-aligned > expectations cause upset. > I have heard that some people are using amd64/FreeBSD, although that can very nearly be promoted to a Tier 1 now. Bodigrim once mentioned that he was considering deploying Haskell on s390x, although I'm not sure what became of that. Otherwise I would be quite surprised if any commercial customers are relying on any of the other Tier 2 or Tier 3 platforms. > I mention all this because it is relevant to our stability guarantees. > Every time we release we should point to this list. > My sense is that this list should ideally rather live in the users guide since it changes from release to release. Cheers, - Ben
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