I'd like to announce the first release of Salsa, an experimental Haskell
library that allows Haskell programs to access .NET libraries.
Here's a taste:
> type Hello.hs
import Foreign.Salsa
import Bindings
main = withCLR $ do
_Console # _writeLine ("Hello .NET World!")
> type Hello.imports
System.Console: WriteLine
> msbuild
> .\hello
Hello .NET World!
Salsa operates by loading the .NET runtime into your Haskell process and
using the FFI (and run-time code generation) to marshall calls between
the .NET and Haskell runtimes. It includes a code generator and a
type-level library (which uses type families) to provide type-safe
access to .NET libraries in Haskell with C#-style method overload
resolution and implicit conversions.
The adventurous can find version 0.1.0.1 of Salsa on Hackage [1], the
darcs repository on code.haskell.org [2], and some (limited)
documentation on the Haskell wiki [3].
The library is experimental and by no means complete (refer to the wiki
page [3] for some of its limitations). Be prepared to end up with
incomprehensible error messages and/or a broken compiler! :-)
At the moment you'll need Windows, GHC 6.8, and version 3.5 of the .NET
Framework to use it.
Have fun!
[1] http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/Salsa
[2] http://code.haskell.org/Salsa
[3] http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Salsa
--
Andrew
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