BHC v0.2.1

BHC v0.2.1

Phase 1: Native Code Generation Complete

This release marks the completion of Phase 1 of BHC development. The Basel Haskell Compiler can now produce working native executables from Haskell source code.

Working Features

Feature	Example	Status
Hello World	putStrLn "Hello, World!"	✅
Integer literals	print 42	✅
Arithmetic	print (1 + 2 * 3)	✅
Let bindings	let x = 5 in print x	✅
Function definitions	double x = x + x	✅
Recursion (factorial)	factorial 10 → 3,628,800	✅
Recursion (fibonacci)	fib 20 → 6,765	✅

Complete Pipeline

• ✅ Haskell source parsing
• ✅ Type checking (Hindley-Milner)
• ✅ Core IR lowering
• ✅ LLVM IR generation
• ✅ RTS linking
• ✅ Native executable output

Installation

curl -fsSL https://bhc.raskell.io/install.sh | sh

Or download the appropriate binary for your platform below.

Platform Support

This release includes binaries for:

• Linux x86_64
• macOS aarch64 (Apple Silicon)

Windows, Linux aarch64, and macOS x86_64 (Intel) binaries will be available in a future release.

Checksums

See SHA256SUMS.txt for file checksums.