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Re:What Is Nix? by mason55 on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @08:38PM (#23253680)
Dependencies can take awhile if you can’t used cached versions of the binaries. Building some Haskell tooling from scratch took ~3 hours on my MBP.
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Re:What Is Nix? by gmfawcett on Thursday May 21, 2020 @08:33AM (#23257617)
There are few compilers that are slower than GHC. I suspect this issue has nothing to do with Nix, and the tools would have taken ages to build from scratch without Nix.
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