Will Nix Overtake Docker?

Re:Will Nix Overtake Docker? by wyager on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @12:00AM (#29389128)

If you're compiling a project for the first time it's probably pulling in a ton of libraries and compiling them all from scratch. But let's be real here - we're talking maybe 3-5 minutes for the first build of a huge Haskell codebase, one or two orders of magnitude faster on second build.

It seems comparable to what I've noticed with Rust or C, and pretty fast compared to some medium/large C++ codebases I've built.

I'm not really sure what workflows people are using where this is a problem, so this may be less of a pain point for me than it is for you. Personally I build Haskell projects once to pull in the dependencies, then use ghcid to get ~instantaneous typechecking on changes I make to the codebase.

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Re:Will Nix Overtake Docker? by AzzieElbab on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @12:22AM (#29389226)

From my experience with Haskell and Scala, derivations and not dependencies is what’s driving compile time. You can probably hide a crypto miner behind all that compiler magic. In Scala I usually move code that invokes a lot of derivations into sub projects, not a clue on how to do that in Haskell

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Re:Will Nix Overtake Docker? by exdsq on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @05:48PM (#29398448)

I wish it took 3 - 5 minutes, I’ve built it projects that are far longer than that. I know this isn’t just me though, because the GHC build documentation tells you to go read stuff for a while as it builds. Longest I can remember is 2 hours.

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