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How I use nix for Haskell development

John Wiegley

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John Wiegley demonstrates his day-to-day workflow using Nix for managing Haskell development environments and dependencies.

This is a talk I gave at a NixHack meetup in San Francisco, on Thursday, March 2 at Takt. It describes how I use Nix in my day to day work, mostly in terms of Haskell development.

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