dterei/ghcionline

Online version of GHCi that supports safely executing untrusted code.

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Can I adopt your ghc.io domain for a similar service?

Hey @dterei

I authored and run tryhaskell.org. You can see it on my keybase: https://keybase.io/chrisdone which includes this github account and my tryhaskell.org domain.

And I'm currently working on an interpreter for GHC STG (https://github.com/chrisdone/prana) and once I'm able to interpret basic primops (ints, chars, integers) and pure code, I'm planning on making a web service that accepts a Haskell file as input, parses it with GHC's parser, whitelists imports and extensions (for safety reasons), and then compiles it to prana's bytecode format, and sends the bytecode back.

Prana will have its own interpreter (to run commandline), but I also want to implement a corresponding in-browser JS-based interpreter of the bytecode too (as a byte array). So that would be a great service to back a rewrite of tryhaskell and/or other educational tools (such as CodeWorld) that need to run Haskell, but it can be run in the browser, offloading CPU work to the user.

I think ghc.io would be a super sweet domain for such a service, input GHC Haskell, receive bytecode. I saw that you were using it for a similar service but that it's no longer pointing to an active machine, and expires in 5 months. If you don't have any future plans for it, I'd love to adopt it.

I could wait 5 months and register it once it expires (presumably you weren't going to re-reg), but I didn't want to snatch it up without explicitly asking. This way there would be a transition process.

If you're happy to pass it over, my username on namecheap.com is chrisdone with email [email protected].

Thanks in any case!

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