Stranger in a Strange Land: An introductory tour of the Haskell FFI

Galois will be providing food and drinks at 6:30pm. Talk will start at 7:00pm.

P.C. Shyamshankar will give a talk titled "Stranger in a Strange Land: An introductory tour of the Haskell FFI".

There comes a time in every Haskell programmer's journey, when they must reach into the depths of C -- to leverage high-performance, low-level libraries; interface with legacy software; or when you just felt like writing C. When this is the case, the Haskell Foreign Function Interface (FFI) has got you covered.

In this talk, we'll take a brief tour of what the FFI is, and how you can use
it -- moving data from your Haskell program to a C program and back; calling C functions from your Haskell program, and possibly even making your own Haskell code callable from C.