Is there a place where I can donate to this project?

[noahmartinwilliams]

I really like this library, but the last update was months ago, and none of the backends currently work for me. Is there a patreon or something that I can make donations to that will speed up the process?

[tmcdonell]

At the moment, no. I've thought about this in the past but honestly wasn't sure if anybody would be interested...

I thought that taking an academic job would give me time to continue working on the project, but that hasn't really panned out. If there were enough funding to actually pay somebody (me or otherwise) to dedicate proper (engineering) time to maintaining and developing this project that would be awesome, but I don't know exactly how to get from here to that point :

Which platforms/backends aren't working for you?

[wujilingfeng]

But this library depends on llvm-9

[noahmartinwilliams]

I can't get to llvm 9 without taking a trip through dependency hell.

[tomsmeding]

Side note, llvm 12 works using some patched dependencies: https://git.tomsmeding.com/mandelhs/tree/cabal.project (still no llvm 15, though)

[wujilingfeng]

cabal install accelerate --extra-include-dirs= --extra-lib-dirs can give you some help.

[tomsmeding]

Accelerate is a library, and cabal install on a library very rarely does something useful, and regularly does something harmful. (At least, for cabal >=3.) In this case, use a cabal.project file with an extra-lib-dirs: directive documentation.

[noahmartinwilliams]

Ok, an update: I managed to get llvm-12 working and the library. It turns out you need to install llvm-12 in /usr/local (for Linux) and you need to download the llvm-hs repo from github and change the shared-llvm flag to False in the llvm-hs/llvm-hs.cabal file, and then you need to add the Paths modules from each accelerate-llvm sub-project to the autogen-modules section. Hopefully you can see why it took so long to figure some of that out considering I'm still kind of new to Haskell.

[tmcdonell]

Indeed, that process is too difficult \:

[noahmartinwilliams]

How much money would you need to work on this full time? I'd like to help out in any way I can. I've got plenty of free time right now, so if I can familiarize myself with the code a bit more I can maybe help make some improvements on it.

[wujilingfeng]

Haskell needs more attention and support. Haskell language needs more excellent libraries and developers, and educational institutions should also offer Haskell courses.

[tmcdonell]

To work on this full time? My academic salary isn't that great (nothing compared to industry tech salaries) but still probably a lot more than we could get with donations. But I'd also consider other options outside pure crowd funding; working at Haskell Foundation/in industry on this (and other Haskell projects/tooling/etc.) for example.