Running Haskell on Raspberry Pi

tl;dr version - install debian on ARM system, apt-get install haskell and then run it.

Its nice that this is on the $25 RPi but its not exactly news, Chumby, Pandaboard, Beagleboard, ChumbyHacker, SAM9X-EK, ... any number of ARM systems that can boot Linux can often apt-get install lots of cool stuff. It is what makes open source, well open.

Over on the Panda list, and presumably this will start on the Rpi boards as well, are complaints when people try to fire up KDE, or GNOME on their 1080P monitors. Or "I tried to run Apache and it fell over dead!" (try thttpd).

Small Linux systems are cool. Cheap small Linux systems are very very cool. But a 700Mhz ARM chip is only slightly faster than a 700Mhz Intel Celeron and you probably don't run full up user environments there either :-)

For me, the saddest thing is that these systems are crippled by poor video driver support.

This was informative if only because I was previously running the Arch image and Haskell is a nightmarish carnival of terror on there at the moment unless you cross-compile. Primarily my interest in Haskell has been in using reactive-banana so I wanted recent a recent version of the platform. Anyway, this made me try out Raspbian and everything's working out great.

Thanks for that! Now for a benchmark... :)

can you cross compile haskell to the Raspberry Pi. That is, compile on your desktop for the PI target?

Seems like overkill to run the compiler on the embedded target all the time.