typelead/eta repository overview

⁠Eta - Modern Haskell on the JVM

The Eta programming language is a dialect of Haskell which runs on the JVM and has the following goals:

• accessibility for beginners from imperative languages, especially Java
• compatibility with GHC 7.10.3's Haskell.

Visit eta-lang.org⁠ for instructions on getting started.

⁠Version

Version: 0.0.9

Stable Build: 0.0.6b8

Latest Build: 0.0.9b1

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⁠Getting Started

Visit the Getting Started⁠ page in the documentation.

⁠License

Eta is available under the BSD 3-Clause License⁠, see LICENSE for more information.

⁠Gratitude

We would like to specifically thank the following groups/people:

• GHC HQ⁠ for providing a base for us to work on.
• Alois Cochard⁠ for his codec-jvm⁠ package that we use for code generation.
• Christopher Wells⁠ for his JAR packaging utility⁠.
• Brian McKenna⁠ for his bug fixes in the codegen/runtime and implementation of basic IO facilities.
• Sibi⁠ for helping out with porting packages and setting up TravisCI.
• Anton Gushcha⁠ for giving detailed bug reports on the Java FFI.
• Balaji Rao⁠ for contributing to the design & implementation for some parts of the FFI.
• Javier Neira⁠ for making Eta work on Windows and testing extensively across multiple Windows versions.
• Paavo Parkkin⁠ for improving error checking in the compiler to prevent runtime bugs.
• Ashley Towns⁠ for implementing low-level primitives in the standard library.
• Alexey Raga⁠ for helping out with CircleCI and actively reporting bugs.
• And many others⁠ who have contributed to Eta in various ways.

Thank you guys!