Looking into hastl, which is a modern Haskell web application template using (H)tmx, (A)lpine.js, (S)ervant, (T)ailwind-css and (L)ucid. It is licensed under MIT and is entirely free and open source. Features: Type-safe APIs, Modern frontend with htmx, Live reloading with GHCID. On GitHub: eldr-io/hastl. Haskell …

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An Android Studio development environment can be somewhat cumbersome to set up under NixOS, so a solution using a Docker container is described in this article. Normally instructions at NixOS Android suffice, but I'm experiencing trouble with additional functionality (e.g. The Gradle Wrapper). Hence this Docker based …

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A Rust programming language development environment can be somewhat cumbersome to set up under NixOS (e.g. to use CLevasseur/ta-lib-rust), so a solution using a Docker container is described in this article. – github.com/rust-lang (by rust-lang/people). Normally a shell.nix as given below suffices to get rustup (see …

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Install a full Haskell development environment (including hpack and cabal) on your Android phone. The command prompt runs via Termux and its PRoot (i.e. proot-distro). F-Droid Install F-Droid from f-droid.org (follow instructions). Termux + PRoot First install the Termux package via F-Droid and then follow the PRoot …

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Create a Docker image with Debian Linux in which you can install and use Haskell tooling via ghcup and that uses your computer's native GUI. This can be useful because using ghcup under NixOS is a bit of a nuisance. On the Docker host computer, if you run the container manually, do not forget to use xhost to allow …

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Once upon a time, while using Debian I had a problem with Docker containers and suspend/resume. Docker resume/thaw problems? When you use Docker containers on your development system and experience problems after a resume from a suspend (or a thaw from a hibernate). On my Debian Stable KDE system –after a resume of my …

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