hlint vs nixfmt

hlint

Haskell source code suggestions (by ndmitchell)

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nixfmt

The official (but not yet stable) formatter for Nix code (by NixOS)

Development Nix Formatter Haskell

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nixfmt.serokell.io

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hlint		nixfmt
	Project
3	Mentions	-
1,432	Stars	618
-	Growth	18.9%
8.1	Activity	9.0
7 days ago	Latest Commit	2 days ago
Haskell	Language	Nix
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	Mozilla Public License 2.0

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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.

hlint

Posts with mentions or reviews of hlint. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-06.

Was simplified subsumption worth it for industry Haskell programmers?
6 projects | /r/haskell | 6 May 2022

There is an open issue on hlint for it and the situation doesn't seem encouraging for anyone using apply-refact on save for Haskell files.
create a manage hook on only one workspace
2 projects | /r/xmonad | 22 Aug 2021
Write Rust lints without forking Clippy
3 projects | /r/rust | 20 May 2021

may want to look at something like https://github.com/ndmitchell/hlint for inspiration. it can be a little finicky but you can express mildly complicated linting rules

nixfmt

Posts with mentions or reviews of nixfmt. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning nixfmt yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing hlint and nixfmt you can also consider the following projects:

ormolu - A formatter for Haskell source code

markdown-unlit - Literate Haskell support for Markdown

hadolint - Dockerfile linter, validate inline bash, written in Haskell

leksah - Haskell IDE

ghcid - Very low feature GHCi based IDE

ihp - 🔥 The fastest way to build type safe web apps. IHP is a new batteries-included web framework optimized for longterm productivity and programmer happiness

haskell-language-server - Official haskell ide support via language server (LSP). Successor of ghcide & haskell-ide-engine.

marvin - The paranoid bot (framework)

haskell-lsp - Haskell library for the Microsoft Language Server Protocol

nixpkgs-fmt - Nix code formatter for nixpkgs [maintainer=@zimbatm]

bisect-binary - Tool to determine relevant parts of binary data

nix-mate - Installing stuff with Nix made easy