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Re:An opinionated guide to Haskell by danharaj on Saturday February 10, 2018 @07:06PM (#16350375)
I didn't, at all, recommend nix to anybody. What are you responding to?
Re:An opinionated guide to Haskell by garmaine on Saturday February 10, 2018 @08:10PM (#16350582)
> Haskell + Nix is the best environment I've ever used for any development

That sounds like a recommendation.

Re:An opinionated guide to Haskell by danharaj on Saturday February 10, 2018 @09:54PM (#16350926)
That's because it's spefically optimized for my needs: writing Reflex apps. It's what I do for a living.

Everyone has different priorities. I know some users who started using Haskell at all with reflex-platform despite the difficulty because it scratched exactly their itch.

Re:An opinionated guide to Haskell by KirinDave on Saturday February 10, 2018 @11:03PM (#16351114)
Well, as complex as Nix+whatever-you-have-cobbled-together-to-build-and-editor-instrument-ghcjs is, it pales in comparison to the sheer ferocious confusion granted to the ecosystem by tools like webpack, so I can see where it might seem like an improvement in some regards.

Webpack: it's like lens error messages for your builds, at runtime!

Re:An opinionated guide to Haskell by ianai on Saturday February 10, 2018 @09:31PM (#16350846)
for developing haskell
Re:An opinionated guide to Haskell by KirinDave on Saturday February 10, 2018 @09:54PM (#16350922)
It sure read like that to me, but given the international nature of this forum, I'll take you at your word. Nor do I disagree with you about your assessment of your experience.

But your experience and your requirements differ from mine, and in a professional capacity I could never recommend Nix for an organization.