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Getting Started with Haskell and Nix

5 pointsby freefranciscoabout 2 years ago

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nolobloabout 2 years ago
This is by far the easiest intro to using haskell the best fp using nix<p>Nix seems like alien language but it starts getting easier with usage<p>nix-env -iA nixpkgs.direnv<p>i was looking for a package manager that replaces the old paradigm, and after reading up on nix i hopped into its community only to find out they&#x27;re mostly Haskell people using it instead of cabal, which is the exact reason i was looking for a new package manager to begin with<p>And configuring direnv based on the article<p>To make it so lazy that every time you cd into a directory your nix environment is automatically loaded this is pure functional programming magic