Haskell Platform

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 It has been superseded by GHCup.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==