[Nix-dev] Haskell Parser for (subset of) Nix

Sergey Mironov ierton at gmail.com
Sat Mar 23 18:13:52 CET 2013


Cool, thanks! It opens the way for many good thinks, like ctags
generator, safe automatic package updaters, and so on!

Sergey

2013/3/23 Vladimír Čunát <vcunat at gmail.com>:
> On 03/23/2013 12:05 PM, Marc Weber wrote:
>>
>> I thought about writing a Haskell interpreter for nix, too.
>> Haskell is very close to nix (being lazy) that comparing performance
>> would be interesting.
>>
>> So what is your goal?
>
>
> If we want some more advanced features for nix (like strong typing), then
> converting to EDSL in Haskell is IMHO one of the best ways to do it. (The
> store-handling would probably remain in C(++) to keep dependencies low.)
>
> Vlada
>
>
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