Introduction to Nix (for users of Stack)

What Nix is for, and how it can help you as a Haskell developer.

Install Nix

curl https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh
source ~/.nix-profile/etc/profile.d/nix.sh

It can live happily in any Linux system.

Nix is like Stack

Think of Nix like Stack, but with a much broader scope.

Stack is there to manage your project’s dependencies, and help you run their programs and compile stuff with them, but only if the dependencies are Ha…