nixfmt vs leksah

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nixfmt		leksah
	Project
-	Mentions	4
608	Stars	978
17.6%	Growth	0.0%
9.0	Activity	3.6
2 days ago	Latest Commit	about 2 years ago
Nix	Language	Haskell
Mozilla Public License 2.0	License	LicenseRef-GPL

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.

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.

leksah

Posts with mentions or reviews of leksah. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-22.

Which IDE/Code editor / Dev environment do you use ?
3 projects | /r/haskell | 22 Oct 2022

[2]: https://github.com/leksah/leksah
Haskell in Production: Channable
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Jun 2022

Well, Leksah used to be a good experience in regards to debugging.
https://github.com/leksah/leksah
Would it be possible to build a great IDE using Haskell?
1 project | /r/haskellquestions | 23 Jun 2021

There is already an Haskell IDE written in haskell : Leksah
Ever tried lekash IDE?
4 projects | /r/haskell | 28 Dec 2020

There are Nix based installation instructions for Mac and Linux. (Getting familiar with Nix can help with managing the Haskell package and tools ecosystem more generally – so it's good Yak shaving...).

What are some alternatives?

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

hlint - Haskell source code suggestions

ghci-ng

markdown-unlit - Literate Haskell support for Markdown

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

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

niv - Easy dependency management for Nix projects

marvin - The paranoid bot (framework)

hie-core - The Daml smart contract language

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

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

nix-mate - Installing stuff with Nix made easy

bumper - Haskell tool to automatically bump package versions transitively.