Cheng demonstrates why it's challenging to port libffi to wasm32, how he implemented it, and how it's useful for cross-compiling the GHC RTS

Why Template Haskell is hard for cross compilation and how Asterius does it

Just a few days ago, Cloudflare and Stack builders published a excellent blog post where they demonstrate how to deploy a Haskell program to Cloudflare Worker with Asterius. In this post we go one step further and show that you can deploy full-fledged servant applications just as…

Asterius compiles Haskell code into WebAssembly code to be executed in a browser or in Node.js. It has reached a new milestone by being able to compile the diagrams library and its dependencies.

I got the opportunity to work on Asterius, a new Haskell to WebAssembly compiler, during my internship at Tweag. My task was to get anything numerics-related stabilized in its compiled code.

Getting your browser to print “Hello World!” is fun, and a milestone for compiler writers targeting the web. Soon expectations change. Can you call existing code? Can you write a moderately complex web app? How fast does it run? Previously, we showed how Haskell can call…

Note: since Mar 19, 2020, we’ve changed the JavaScript import syntax: the -th argument is now instead of . The code snippets in this post have been adjusted accordingly. Previously, we announced the Asterius compiler, a new GHC-backend that translates Haskell to WebAssembly…

Asterius is an experimental WebAssembly backend for GHC. We aim to support most GHC features while making the emitted WebAssembly code as small and fast as possible. The project recently reached an exciting milestone: for the first time, simple Haskell functions can be compiled…