The LambdaVM pro­ject is actu­ally a really bril­liant pro­ject. It’s a modi­fic­a­tion of GHC to tar­get the JVM. I installed it in Octo­ber of last year and played around with it, feel­ing that it might actu­ally have a place in help­ing spread the gos­pel of Pola.

The thing is I can’t expect people to down­load the source to Pola if they want to ( Read more... )

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I recently rewrote the build sys­tem for Pola from ant to GNU make. Keep­ing things in ant was get­ting to be too much work, try­ing to be proper and writ­ing tasks (in Java) rather than just using the shell. I was ini­tially a little wor­ried about how much work it would be to redo the build sys­tem, but I was pleas­antly reminded by how simple it ( Read more... )