Stable Haskell

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Stable Haskell is a fork of GHC and Cabal that actually builds GHC with Cabal instead of Hadrian, migrates hosting to GitHub, and adds explicit cross‑compilation and retargetable toolchains so one GHC binary can serve multiple targets. It splits the RTS into sublibraries so alternative runtimes are installable, adds GHCup support for installing forks, and reworks CI and backport paths; a small linking fix takes three months to merge in upstream practice. build GHC with Cabal RTS split into sublibraries retargetable cross-compilers

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1. 0:00Stable Haskell introduction
2. 2:38GHC stability problems
3. 7:54GHC contribution challenges
4. 10:44Why Stable Haskell
5. 12:05Stable Haskell foundations
6. 13:07GHC with Cabal build
7. 16:55RTS split and sub-libraries
8. 20:52Retargetable GHC and cross-compile
9. 22:38Future plans and bootstrapping
10. 23:21Live demo of toolchain
11. 26:13Q&A

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