me: nix, can i have a haskell development shell
nix: sure, that'll just be a 9gb download
me: nix, can i have a haskell development shell
nix: sure, that'll just be a 9gb download
Not to mention, it can be a little complicated to setup that shell unless you've defined some templates to pull in GHC, cabal-install, and hls, say. It was really eye-popping for me when I first tried out deno and it had so much built in to the compiler itself.
for sure. this is one of the great things about working with cargo/rust, too. fortunately my āask jadeā solution works pretty well for this: https://github.com/lf-/flake-templates/blob/main/haskell/flake.nix