haskell-template vs haskell.nix

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haskell-template		haskell.nix
	Project
7	Mentions	15
208	Stars	524
-	Growth	1.7%
7.9	Activity	9.7
10 days ago	Latest Commit	5 days ago
Nix	Language	Nix
MIT License	License	Apache License 2.0

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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

haskell-template

Posts with mentions or reviews of haskell-template. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-08.

On the verge of giving up learning Haskell because of the terrible tooling.
5 projects | /r/haskell | 8 May 2023

I am a Haskell newbie myself. Found nix flakes and https://github.com/srid/haskell-template really nice to start with (of course some learning curve is unavoidable).
Simple GHC stack for a novice
6 projects | /r/haskell | 17 Oct 2022

If you wanna get started with Haskell on Nix, check out Sridhar Ratnakumar's Haskell template for Nix. You can easily clone the repo and move your Haskell code into it, especially if you're still a novice (as you likely won't be dealing with a HUGE codebase).
haskell-flake: A `flake-parts` Nix module for Haskell development.
3 projects | /r/haskell | 31 May 2022

I'd say that's up to you. haskell-template did recently switch to this; you can see the changes in this PR, which is all limited to flake.nix.
Best practices for Haskell on M1 with Nix?
4 projects | /r/haskell | 10 Feb 2022

Could you open an issue here with the full error message?
Looking for IDE that is suitable for learning Haskell
2 projects | /r/haskell | 1 Nov 2021

I think you should use ghcup because Nix has a higher learning curve ... BUT if you ever want to try out Nix, there is https://github.com/srid/haskell-template which sets everything up for you so that things "just work" in VSCode.

haskell.nix

Posts with mentions or reviews of haskell.nix. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-29.

Why does Nix have Haskell packages that are incompatible with GHC for a given version?
3 projects | /r/haskell | 29 Dec 2022

I'm not a great haskeller but I found haskell.nix better for Haskell projects, like the commenter on Discourse suggested. I've had a few issued regarding package versions with nixpkgs that haskell.nix solved.
Simple GHC stack for a novice
6 projects | /r/haskell | 17 Oct 2022

FWIW, there's also libraries like haskell.nix that solve the caching problem.
Any up-to-date cross-compiling methods for Raspberry Pi?
3 projects | /r/haskell | 20 Sep 2022

I would try haskell.nix.
Take the Nix Pill
4 projects | /r/linuxmemes | 8 Jul 2022

If you want to hurt your brain, check out haskell.nix. That's some good stuff right there ^^
Trying to build a statically linked binary against glibc (Linux)
3 projects | /r/haskell | 3 Jul 2022

The haskell.nix framework is good for this.
GHC 9.4.1 Windows changes
2 projects | /r/haskell | 28 Jun 2022

One cool thing is that this will enable GHC builds using ucrt instead of vscrt in the future. Concretely, together with NixOS/nixpkgs#171418 and its follow-up NixOS/nixpkgs#173498), this will e.g. allow haskell.nix to upgrade to a newer wine pin for TH cross compilation: https://github.com/input-output-hk/haskell.nix/blob/dd13e822529ae5342494969bce8a457522a60100/overlays/wine.nix
How to make stack work like it's supposed to
1 project | /r/NixOS | 23 May 2022

I've been using IOHK's alternative infrastructure for this reason. It has its quirks but I've been happier with it. Before that I think I was using developPackage from the nixpkgs haskell tooling which had some introspection ability. You may consider trying that out. But as I remember this will not abide by your version bounds.
Announcing `safe-coloured-text`
1 project | /r/haskell | 7 Feb 2022

There's a lot to like here. Alas, despite minimal dependencies, terminfo is somehow uniquely problematic in haskell.nix.
A question about the current state of Haskell running natively on Apple silicon:
1 project | /r/haskell | 21 Jan 2022
Memory from finished thread is not getting reclaimed
7 projects | /r/haskell | 9 Sep 2021

If you are somewhat comfortable with nix: https://github.com/input-output-hk/haskell.nix supports GHCJS 8.10.x (in particular 8.10.7).

What are some alternatives?

When comparing haskell-template and haskell.nix you can also consider the following projects:

rust-nix-template - Rust project template with Nix (Flakes) and VSCode support

Cabal - Official upstream development repository for Cabal and cabal-install

ema - Change-aware static site generator for Haskell programmers

nix-doom-emacs - doom-emacs packaged for Nix

haskell-flake - A `flake-parts` Nix module for Haskell development

static-haskell-nix - easily build most Haskell programs into fully static Linux executables

template-haskell - The Haskell template, configured for Gitpod (www.gitpod.io) to give you pre-built, ephemeral development environments in the cloud.

polysemy - :gemini: higher-order, no-boilerplate monads

reflex - Interactive programs without callbacks or side-effects. Functional Reactive Programming (FRP) uses composable events and time-varying values to describe interactive systems as pure functions. Just like other pure functional code, functional reactive code is easier to get right on the first try, maintain, and reuse.

frp-zoo - Comparing many FRP implementations by reimplementing the same toy app in each.

nix-templates - Minimal reproducible nix flake templates

nixpkgs - Nix Packages collection & NixOS