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Re:Making a GTK application in Haskell, part 1 by black_knight on Monday October 05, 2026 @05:28PM (#49971057)
My Haskell experience on NixOS is wonderful!

I think it depends on your district. On some distros (looking at you arch!) I think GHCup and keeping things in /home and out of your system package manager is the better approach.

That said, I never had issues with Pandoc on any distribution. But I have struggled with Pandoc extensions, before I got NixOS (and flakes).

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Re:Making a GTK application in Haskell, part 1 by rgoulter on Monday October 05, 2026 @09:06PM (#49972898)
On the one hand, NixOS can have a steep learning curve. (Although if you're willing to use LLM coding agents, I bet "steep learning curve" turns into "be curious and ask the LLM how it works").

On the other, I bet anyone curious about Haskell would love NixOS.

In regards to Haskell not being trouble, though: I'm not too familiar, but I thought stackage & the 'stack' tool would ease over any pain.

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