At this current point in time, GHC is packaged in a poor manner, with GHC being unbelievably huge. Dynamic linking is the answer, which isn't done by default.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6115459/small-haskell-program-compiled-with-ghc-into-huge-binary Aloha, RK. On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 3:35 AM, Joe Hillenbrand <joehil...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > >
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