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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The Propellor configuration management system uses Haskell and Git. Each system has a list of properties, which Propellor ensures are satisfied. Linux and FreeBSD are supported. Debian I use Propellor to manage my Debian installation (it replaced my NixOS installation — which I reconsidered because of this: abdication …

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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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A nix-shell can be used to quickly set up ad-hoc development environments with all required dependencies in place. SDL2 program To compile an SDL2 program –for this example Tsoding's sowon is used– put the following in a shell.nix file: 1with import <nixpkgs> {}; 2 3let 4 stdenv8 = overrideCC stdenv gcc8; 5in 6 …

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The Purely Functional Linux Distribution – NixOS (by Dolstra, Eelco). NixOS is a Linux distribution with a unique approach to package and configuration management. Built on top of the Nix package manager, it is completely declarative, makes upgrading systems reliable, and has many other advantages. The configuration is …

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The Purely Functional Linux Distribution – NixOS (by Dolstra, Eelco). NixOS is a Linux distribution with a unique approach to package and configuration management. Built on top of the Nix package manager, it is completely declarative, makes upgrading systems reliable, and has many other advantages. Research project …

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