Haskell: GHC 9.6.1-alpha3 is now available

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GHC 9.6.1-alpha3 is now available

bgamari - 2023-03-03

The GHC team is very pleased to announce the availability of the first (and likely final) release candidate of GHC 9.6.1. 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 targe...

Get the full details here: GHC 9.6.1-alpha3 is now available — The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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