The Haskell Platform is a set of software packages, tools, and libraries that create a common platform for using and developing applications in the programming language Haskell. With the Haskell Platform, Haskell follows the same principle as Python: "Batteries included". Since 2022, the Haskell Platform has been deprecated.
Motivation
The Haskell Platform aims to unify Haskell development tools into a single package, consisting of a compiler, compiling tools, and many standard libraries, thereby making it easier to develop and deploy full-featured Haskell-based applications.
Packages included The last versions consist of:
Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC), Haskell's flagship compiler The GHC-Profiler GHCi, GHCs bytecode-interpreter The GHCi-Debugger Alex, a lexer generator, similar to Lex Happy, a parser generator, similar to Yacc Cabal, a package manager Haddock, a documentation tool hsc2hs, a preprocessor for binding Haskell to C code, allowing C libraries to be used from Haskell various libraries, such as zlib, cgi and OpenGL
Deployment It is available for Ubuntu, Arch Linux, FreeBSD, Gentoo Linux (IA-32, x86-64), Fedora Linux, Debian (stable) and NixOS. One-click installers exist for macOS (Intel) and Windows.
Versions Originally, in 2009, the Haskell Platform aimed at a periodic 6-month release cycle. Starting with 7.10.2 which was released July 29, 2015, it has followed the release cycle of GHC and has since used the same version numbering scheme.
Deprecation In 2022, the Haskell Platform was deprecated, and is no longer an actively supported or recommended way of installing Haskell. It has been superseded by GHCup.
See also List of Haskell software and tools
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