haskell.nix
Alternative Haskell Infrastructure for Nixpkgs (by input-output-hk)
nixkell
A simple Nix-Haskell skeleton (by pwm)
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| haskell.nix | nixkell | |
|---|---|---|
| 15 | 5 | |
| 524 | 80 | |
| 1.7% | - | |
| 9.6 | 4.2 | |
| about 10 hours ago | about 1 month ago | |
| Nix | Nix | |
| Apache License 2.0 | MIT License |
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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.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.
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Why does Nix have Haskell packages that are incompatible with GHC for a given version?
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.
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Simple GHC stack for a novice
FWIW, there's also libraries like haskell.nix that solve the caching problem.
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Any up-to-date cross-compiling methods for Raspberry Pi?
I would try haskell.nix.
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Take the Nix Pill
If you want to hurt your brain, check out haskell.nix. That's some good stuff right there ^^
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Trying to build a statically linked binary against glibc (Linux)
The haskell.nix framework is good for this.
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GHC 9.4.1 Windows changes
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
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How to make stack work like it's supposed to
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.
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Announcing `safe-coloured-text`
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:
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Memory from finished thread is not getting reclaimed
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).
nixkell
Posts with mentions or reviews of nixkell.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-07.
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NixOS + Haskell best practices circa March 2023
A while ago I've put together a little skeleton that i use when creating new haskell projects: https://github.com/pwm/nixkell
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Most braindead easy end to end haskell workflow?
Quite the opposite of caveman. You are used to 21st century tooling that not long ago Haskell simply did not have. I can relate. Luckily nowadays we have HLS thanks to all the amazing people involved. With HLS the IDE/editor matters less as long as they can use it. You probably would be most at home with VSCode. Re setup here’s a shameless nix-based plug: https://github.com/pwm/nixkell (Watch the gif in the readme)
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first glances: frustrated with introductory material
Shameless plug for quickly setting up a project: https://github.com/pwm/nixkell
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Can't get things to work. It is normal to learn haskell with plain vim?
I've actually just started a small side-project trying to replicate the UX of stack with nix: https://github.com/pwm/nixkell
- Nixkell - Get your Haskell projects up and running with no fuss using Nix
What are some alternatives?
When comparing haskell.nix and nixkell you can also consider the following projects:
Cabal - Official upstream development repository for Cabal and cabal-install
reflex-platform - A curated package set and set of tools that let you build Haskell packages so they can run on a variety of platforms. reflex-platform is built on top of the nix package manager.
nix-doom-emacs - doom-emacs packaged for Nix
ghcid - Very low feature GHCi based IDE
static-haskell-nix - easily build most Haskell programs into fully static Linux executables
stack - The Haskell Tool Stack
polysemy - :gemini: higher-order, no-boilerplate monads
tilapia - Improving all Haskell's programmer interfaces
frp-zoo - Comparing many FRP implementations by reimplementing the same toy app in each.
std - A DevOps framework for the SDLC with the power of Nix and Flakes. Good for keeping deadlines!
nixpkgs - Nix Packages collection & NixOS
lorri - Your project's nix-env