ghc-proposals VS penrose

Compare ghc-proposals vs penrose and see what are their differences.

ghc-proposals

Proposed compiler and language changes for GHC and GHC/Haskell (by ghc-proposals)

penrose

Haskell to JavaScript compiler, based on GHC (by ghcjs)
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ghc-proposals penrose
159 16
667 2,591
0.3% 0.0%
9.1 0.0
6 days ago about 1 year ago
Python Haskell
- MIT License
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ghc-proposals

Posts with mentions or reviews of ghc-proposals. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-07.

penrose

Posts with mentions or reviews of penrose. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-10.
  • Secretly introduced rust in my company, now they love it!
    2 projects | /r/rust | 10 Mar 2023
    There is a fork that compiles to js https://github.com/ghcjs/ghcjs compiler, and I believe the official glasgow compiler is working towards also supporting js/wasm (although I don't think they are supported as of yet).
  • Resurrection/modernization of an old Haskell+Haste project (boardgame Yinsh)
    8 projects | /r/haskell | 8 Feb 2023
    I don't know anything about Haste, but you can get GHCJS 8.6 (or 8.10 with a bloated executable) via nix fairly easily or alternatively wait until the JS target recently merged into mainline ghc gets production ready: https://engineering.iog.io/2023-01-26-ghc-update.
  • How does GHC built from source set header search path?
    2 projects | /r/haskell | 22 Jan 2023
    Ah GHCJS does have this header: https://github.com/ghcjs/ghcjs/blob/ghc-8.10/lib/boot/data/include/stg/DLL.h
  • Haskell, JS, and WebDev?
    3 projects | /r/haskell | 12 Jan 2023
  • GHCJS or Asterius
    2 projects | /r/haskell | 3 Oct 2022
    About the FFI: GHCJS extended the FFI to support inlined JS, named arguments, etc. See https://github.com/ghcjs/ghcjs/blob/master/doc/foreign-function-interface.md For now the JS backend only implements FFI calls similarly to native FFI. The rest will be open to discussion later (e.g. in a ghc-proposal) and should take into account the Wasm backend so that the same user code compiles with both backends as much as possible.
  • Memory from finished thread is not getting reclaimed
    7 projects | /r/haskell | 9 Sep 2021
    I know, but I'm using GHCJS so I'm pretty much stuck with it (and using different compiler versions for development builds (which are native executables) and production doesn't seem like a good idea). There is hope though https://github.com/ghcjs/ghcjs/commits/ghc-8.10
    7 projects | /r/haskell | 9 Sep 2021
    Other than that, I ran into a GHCJS and Miso bug, but they weren't too hard to solve.
  • GHC Pluggable Backend?
    4 projects | /r/haskell | 4 May 2021
    There are a bunch of open branches. And yes, there is ghcjs support in haskell.nix, see this comment.
  • Is GHCJS stuck on GHC 8.6.5?
    3 projects | /r/haskell | 17 Apr 2021
    Default branch on ghcjs github is 8.6. 8.10 is a wip with commit from around a month ago.
    3 projects | /r/haskell | 17 Apr 2021
    When I compile the ghc-8.8 branch locally, I get a number of test failures from the test suite. I'm not sure exactly how to fix them and they aren't currently my highest hobby priority.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ghc-proposals and penrose you can also consider the following projects:

haskell-language-server - Official haskell ide support via language server (LSP). Successor of ghcide & haskell-ide-engine.

ascii-art-to-unicode - Small program to convert ASCII box art to Unicode box drawings.

ihp - 🔥 The fastest way to build type safe web apps. IHP is a new batteries-included web framework optimized for longterm productivity and programmer happiness

julia - The Julia Programming Language

rio-orphans - A standard library for Haskell

safe - Haskell library for safe (pattern match free) functions

aeson-serialize - Functions for serializing a type that is an instance of ToJSON

final - final monad helper for Haskell to instead of return

hoogle - Haskell API search engine

cognimeta-utils - Utilities used by Perdure

miso - :ramen: A tasty Haskell front-end framework