[Nix-dev] Use Haskell for Shell Scripting

[Joe Hillenbrand]

Chicken or Scheme are not at all what at all what I was suggesting as they
offer nothing in the way of purity or type-safety, which are the primary
motivation for suggesting Haskell.

On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 8:12 PM, Anderson Torres <
torres.anderson.85 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2015-01-31 22:24 GMT-02:00 Ertugrul Söylemez <ertesx at gmx.de>:
> >> What about other languages as Python, Perl etc.? I know it is against
> >> our purity standards, but they are a far superior to Bash scripting.
> >
> > Well, that's the current state of the art.  They are both used in
> > Nixpkgs and some Nix-related tools.  They are an improvement over Bash
> > scripting, but I believe we might as well go all the way and use a
> > functional language.
> >
> > Also the Nix model allows us to compile all our scripts easily (just
> > apply a function), which might hold some benefit in terms of startup and
> > switch times.  There is little reason to use interpreted scripts when
> > you have a fast compiler.
>
> So, Chicken appears to be a good choice: it can be both interpreted
> and compiled, very fast and with little overhead. And it can be easily
> debugged - it's functional, after all!
> I think Haskell is as much as overkiller - there is even a project
> about it: Nix Evaluator in Haskell[1]. It is easier to use a less
> ambitious and more funny language (in the Python sense of funny
> programming).
>
> What about to start a project to implement Chicken as script
> supporting language for Nix? I would like to help!
>
> 1 - http://lists.science.uu.nl/pipermail/nix-dev/2014-July/013624.html
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