nixfmt vs ormolu

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nixfmt		ormolu
	Project
-	Mentions	7
618	Stars	918
17.6%	Growth	0.4%
9.0	Activity	8.0
about 1 hour ago	Latest Commit	20 days ago
Nix	Language	Haskell
Mozilla Public License 2.0	License	BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License

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.

ormolu

Posts with mentions or reviews of ormolu. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-28.

Browser to Haskell Wasm Reactor Module Communication Example
4 projects | /r/haskell | 28 Feb 2023

I have a similar example based on Ormolu live. I wonder if there are any libraries being developed to send data back and forth?
Format multiline imports in hls (emacs)
2 projects | /r/haskell | 23 Apr 2022

You will also need a formatter that uses that style. Brittany for example. The default formattingProvider for HLS is ormolu, which I believe doesn't use this style, so you will have to change this setting.
Monthly Hask Anything (February 2022)
4 projects | /r/haskell | 1 Feb 2022
Open source projects for beginners
7 projects | /r/haskell | 24 Jan 2022
Advent of Code 2021 day 1
5 projects | /r/haskell | 1 Dec 2021

Turns out I prefer Brittany to Ormolu, I edited it so it hopefully looks less verbose all on one line
Hacking on Ormolu: An internship report
1 project | /r/haskell | 29 Oct 2021

Your post made me go back and check it out. I want to love ormolu, but its insistence on eating up vertical space kills it for me. #514 #657
Emacs for Haskell
4 projects | /r/haskell | 27 Apr 2021

For code formatting ormolu is a good option

What are some alternatives?

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

hlint - Haskell source code suggestions

fourmolu - A fourk of ormolu that uses four space indentation and allows arbitrary configuration. Don't like it? PRs welcome!

markdown-unlit - Literate Haskell support for Markdown

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

leksah - Haskell IDE

brittany - haskell source code formatter

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

marvin - The paranoid bot (framework)

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

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

fugue - A recapitulated prelude with minimal dependencies and profligate exports.