MicroHs is the browser is more fun now
Haskell Community [Unofficial]
May 14, 2026
augustss:
very modest requirements of the C compiler.
Okaaay. I assumed it needed a recent C compiler. Your Compiling instructions don’t give a minimum version for cl. I’m running VS12.0, 2015. Why this museum-grade kit? Because that’s what works to build Hugs (2006).
Why Hugs? Because I want lessness in my Haskell, but plus extensible records, plus a principled implementation of FunDeps+Overlaps (that is a sane basis for tweaking a little).
I was hoping MicroHS might also be some of that, but AFAICT you’re aiming to perpetrate a large proportion of GHC’s extensions except with no LANGUAGE pragma to block them, and worse error messages. I’m not trying to run a Haskell on tiny devices, so I’m not seeing WIIFM with MicroHS over GHC.
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