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by benreesman
1417 days ago
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I think you would just make it Haskell. I don’t know the exact chronology of Nix (the language), so I can’t comment with full confidence, but Real World Haskell (written by my utterly brilliant former colleague Bryan O’Sullivan /humblebrag) was published in 2008, and the Haskell described there has monad transformers and all kinds of nifty stuff. I think Eelco’s thesis was published around the same time? It’s possible that my dates are off and they really needed to rig up their own System F machine, but I suspect it just seemed cool and now we’re stuck with it. Nix (the language) stomps like JSON or YAML for writing config files, it’s actually not bad at that, but it’s a disaster in its contemporary role. |
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https://researchr.org/publication/Dolstra2006
More recently there is an attempt to run Nickel as a successor for Nix: https://www.tweag.io/blog/2020-10-22-nickel-open-sourcing/