haskell.nix VS haskell-nix

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.

FWIW, there's also libraries like haskell.nix that solve the caching problem.

I would try haskell.nix.

If you want to hurt your brain, check out haskell.nix. That's some good stuff right there ^^

The haskell.nix framework is good for this.

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

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.

There's a lot to like here. Alas, despite minimal dependencies, terminfo is somehow uniquely problematic in haskell.nix.

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).

Here's a tutorial on using native dependencies.

Nevermind. I found a really good tutorial: https://github.com/Gabriel439/haskell-nix

Gabriel Gonzalez's haskell-nix is a far more palatable introduction tutorial, then they can make the choice of whether or not to buy into IOHK's haskell.nix ecosystem if it suits their needs.

I found useful this series of articles introducing Nix by using it with Haskell: https://github.com/Gabriel439/haskell-nix

I hope it helps.