Haskell: GHC 9.6.1-alpha2 is now available

NewsBot · 30 January 2023 19:00

A new Haskell blog post/announcement has been posted!

GHC 9.6.1-alpha2 is now available

bgamari - 2023-01-30

The GHC team is very pleased to announce the availability of GHC 9.6.1-alpha2. As usual, binaries and source distributions are available at downloads.haskell.org.

Beginning with GHC 9.6.1, GHC can be built as a cross-compiler to WebAssembly and JavaScript. This is an important step towards robust support for compiling Haskell to the Web, but there are a few caveats to be aware of in the 9.6 series:

Both the Javascript and WebAssembly backends are still at an early stage of development and are present in this release as a technology preview

Using GHC as a cross-compiler is not as easy as we would like it to be; in particular, there are challenges related to Template Haskell

GHC is not yet run-time retargetable; a given GHC binary targets exactly one platform, and both WebAss...

Get the full details here: http://haskell.org/ghc/blog/20230130-ghc-9.6.1-alpha2-released.html