On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Casey Basichis <caseybasic...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Kris, > > No offense taken, it was an argument that works to shut down constructive > discussion of how to get Haskell running on mobile, a task which has > perplexed me for several long days. I agree most apps are pretty terrible, > at least on iOS though, despite the percentages being wildly off there are > still a few hundred apps that are very well done and thoughtful, none of > them using Haskell I'm sure. >
Yup! Most of the time apps are merely "translated" versions of rails frontends. (For better or for worse, I assume that if we were to port haskell to work with Android really it would be mostly to appease my purity.) > I'm looking to pass Haskell lists of musical data and return processed > musical ideas from it (not audio, not realtime). I was also planning on > handling a database within Haskell as the information contained would be > used by the music processing and from what I have read Haskell interfaces to > SQL far more readily than with a C++ orm type solution. I was planning on > working with Haskells Euterpea as base to build my ideas off of, my I might > end up rolling my own similar library as my aims are a bit different than > theirs. > I'm not sure I understand completely, but I agree this isn't a bad idea. > Everything else would be C++, including the interface, audio and dsp > processing etc. I already have the C++ stuff running on my phone. I have > read about the difficulty of getting Haskell working in real world > scenarios, but as far as I understand my plans for it are fairly well suited > to it. > I don't disagree! > Since much of the documentation online about Haskell seems to be out of > date, its tough to get a general feel for whats working. I see people > mention that cross-compilation was finished a while back which should allow > for targeting arm but nothing concrete and the website gives conflicting > info. I've also considered using GHC to generate C to paste into the > project but it seems there have been and may be more integrated ways to get > it running. I am venturing into my embarrassing lack of knowledge about GHC internals here, but how easily would the run time system work on Android..? I had assumed a large part of the effort into getting OCaml to work on iPhone went into the runtime system, no? If you're (Andrew or anyone) still interested in pursuing this I would be interested in helping out, I have some Android internals knowledge and would be glad to lend a hand. One major thing that seems to be necessary is congealing all the (mis/outdated)information into the wiki article on haskell.org. kris _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
