Haskell packaging/building is a lot more pleasant with Nix. Cabal and stack are too fragile imho and user settings can far too easily break packages. With nix y

Haskell packaging/building is a lot more pleasant with Nix. Cabal and stack are too fragile imho and user settings can far too easily break packages. With nix you can still do customisation but I find nix at least puts a reasonable amount of assurance that your configuration isn't going to cause the entire build to explode.