| 18 Mar 2026 |
 alexfmpe | I'd expect haskellPackages.foo to always have the same host platform | 05:53:46 |
| alexfmpe | * I'd expect pkgsCross.foo.haskellPackages.bar to always have 'foo' as same host platform for all 'bar' | 05:54:28 |
| alexfmpe | But bar=ghc acts special | 05:54:53 |
| alexfmpe | In reply to @alexfmpe:matrix.org
haskellPackages in particular is 'wrong' in that it generates one derivation per package, not per component Or rather, cabal2nix is wrong, and haskellPackages is based on throwing cabal2nix at hackage | 05:55:40 |
 Alex | I believe this is due to how ghc is threaded through haskellPackages. So that mkDerivation can find it, it is bound to ghc, but this only works well for native.
It also has weird consequences when you try using other compilers, where you can e.g. end up with haskellPackages.ghc being MicroHs. | 06:08:19 |
 woobilicious | Ahh thanks for the feedback, I don't think manual intervention is practical here, the more I think about it, the more it might be easier to just build dirivation per package, with no "real" dependencies, and then de-duplicate strings some way to prevent infinite loops. | 07:45:37 |
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 linj | Just found a new nix interpreter implemented from scratch in Haskell https://github.com/Novavero-AI/nova-nix. Any comments? | 11:05:00 |
 chreekat | Big if true | 11:20:30 |
| alexfmpe | Author has been announcing it in couple rooms | 11:29:16 |
| alexfmpe | Seems like AI slop | 11:29:25 |
| alexfmpe | > Hand-rolled recursive descent parser for the full Nix expression language. 13 precedence levels, 18 AST constructors, | 11:29:30 |
| alexfmpe | "Now with 30% more precedence levels. Buy 3, take 4" | 11:30:37 |
