Hi Ant,

I don't believe anyone still maintains or uses Hugs - you'd be better
off looking at GHC.

Thanks, Neil

On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 12:37 AM 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
>
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