tl;dr: Nothing beats Haskell.nix for features and flexibility. To get started quickly, use the template-haskell project template.

If you’ve ever tried to set up a Haskell project, you know that it can be extremely frustrating to get to a point where everything just werks1. Of course, just compiling a project is not that hard, it’s when you have multiple projects, spanning multiple compiler versions, all requiring tooling compiled with the right GHC version, that things quickly turn into a mess. In this post I will outline what I think is currently the best way of setting up a Haskell project.

If you’re just starting out with Haskell, this guide is not for you. You’re probably best off just using Stack. You will know when you’re ready…

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