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Neat. Somewhat related is hnix [0], a community effort in re-implementing the Nix expression language in Haskell.

While so far the focus has mostly been on implementing the expression language as is, hnix being written in Haskell could be attractive for enriching the language with fancier features:

"Because now that it's in Haskell, now that a lot of other hackers could get involved, we could do things like add optional typing to the Nix language." — J. Wiegley

For more on hnix check out Haskell Cast's Episode 13 [1] with John Wiegley.

[0]: https://github.com/jwiegley/hnix

[1]: http://www.haskellcast.com/episode/013-john-wiegley-on-categ...