Editing Glasgow Haskell Compiler (section)

{{Short description|Compiler for Haskell programming language}}
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{{Infobox software
| title = The Glasgow Haskell Compiler
| name=
| logo = 
| logo caption = 
| screenshot = 
| caption = 
| author = Kevin Hammond
| developer = [[Simon Marlow]], [[Simon Peyton Jones]], The Glasgow Haskell Team<ref name="contribs"/>
| released = {{Start date and age|1992|12}}<ref name="history"/><!-- Work began in 1989, but the first public, non-beta release was in December 1992 -->
| latest release version = {{wikidata|property|edit|P348}}
| latest release date = {{Start date and age| {{wikidata|qualifier|P348|P577}} |df=y}}<ref>
 {{cite web
 |title=Download – The Glasgow Haskell Compiler
 |url=https://www.haskell.org/ghc/download.html
 |website=Haskell.org
}}
 </ref>
| latest preview version = 
| latest preview date = <!-- {{Start date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|df=yes/no}} -->
| programming language = [[Haskell]], [[C (programming language)|C]]
| operating system = [[Linux]], [[macOS Catalina]]<ref name=deprecate32bit>{{cite web|url=https://www.haskell.org/ghc/blog/20240613-32-bit-darwin-and-windows-deprecation.html|title=Deprecation of 32-bit Darwin and Windows platforms|publisher=GHC Team}}</ref> and later, [[Windows 2000]] and later, [[FreeBSD]]
| platform = [[x86-64]],<ref name=deprecate32bit /> [[AArch64]]
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| language = English
| genre = [[Compiler]]
| license = [[BSD licenses#3-clause|BSD 3-clause]] (new)
| website = {{URL|www.haskell.org/ghc}}
}}
The '''Glasgow Haskell Compiler''' ('''GHC''') is a native or [[machine code]] [[compiler]] for the [[Functional programming|functional]] [[programming language]] [[Haskell]].<ref name="manual">
{{cite web
 | title = The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System User's Guide
 | url = https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/latest/docs/html/users_guide/index.html
 | website = Haskell.org
 | access-date = 27 July 2014
}}
</ref> It provides a [[cross-platform software]] environment for writing and testing Haskell code and supports many extensions, [[Library (computing)|libraries]], and optimisations that streamline the process of generating and executing code. GHC is the most commonly used Haskell compiler.<ref>
{{cite web | title = 2017 state of Haskell survey results
 | url = http://taylor.fausak.me/2017/11/15/2017-state-of-haskell-survey-results/#question-14 
 | website = taylor.fausak.me
 | date = 15 November 2017
 | access-date = 11 December 2017
}}
</ref> It is [[free and open-source software]] released under a [[BSD licenses|BSD license]].