On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 8:36 AM, Domen Kožar <do...@dev.si> wrote: > If you want to impose on people to learn Haskell and Nix to contribute, > you're going to end up in a lonely island. Remember, Nix tries to be > approachable to everyone and that's why it's minimal and simple. >
I'll never buy the circular argument that "Haskell's not popular because Haskell's not popular." I think people would be encouraged to learn Haskell if Nix was using it to great success. From what I've seen, a huge chunk of the existing Nix community are Haskellers because they understand the benefits of purity. I think if there is a clear benefit to a superior tool, it should be used, though I'm not entirely convinced there are a huge benefit to using Turtle. On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 5:07 PM, Oliver Charles <ol...@ocharles.org.uk> wrote: > Not sure if you're serious... > I'm not sure if I am either. I'm just curious what people think about the possibility. I'd imagine that the startup overhead is now higher than bash, and the size > of closures goes up a lot (you have to pull in the many hundreds of MB that > GHC needs). Given those concerns another option could be shell-monad[1][2], which outputs shell script, so you get some of the safety benefits of Haskell with none of the overhead. Maybe it would be a good middle ground. [1] http://joeyh.name/blog/entry/shell_monad_day_3/ [2] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/shell-monad
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