Embedded Haskell: calling Haskell from other languages

[dons]

The Haskell FFI, and in particular, GHC, supports "foreign export" of Haskell code to C, and embedding Haskell modules inside C apps. However, this functionality is rarely used, and requires a fair bit of manual effort.

This project would seek to simplify, polish and document the process of embedding and calling Haskell code from C, and languages that use the C ffi (Python, Erlang, C++ ...), providing a canned solution for running Haskell fragments from projects written in other languages.

A good solution here has great potential to help Haskell adoption (as we've seen in Lua), by mitigating the risk of using Haskell in a project.

Related organisations

Depending on the language, we may be able to move this under another language umbrella (Python, Perl, Ruby, ... ?)

Interested mentors

• Don Stewart

Interested students

• Ben Kalman
• Wojciech Cichon
• Damien Desfontaines