[SomeoneEsle123]

IHP seems great, but I found it very hard to work with.

The guide said it takes 15 minutes to build initially...it took my laptop 1 1/2 hours. And I didn't use cachix (no idea what it was, didn't want it to mess with my system) so after a nix-gc I had to build again...

And the pro version costs $300/year, and goes up to $1500/year if you make $20k. That might be good for a huge company, but if that's a side project or a solo dev's income, that's way too expensive.

[_query]

Cachix manages the prebuilt binaries used by IHP. If you don't install Cachix, nix will compile a lot of IHP's dependencies from scratch. This takes a long while and is not recommended.

[SomeoneEsle123]

It manages the prebuilt binaries...but requires being run as root or adding myself to the list of Nix trustedUsers...on an OS level.

Both of those things are scary and dangerous. I don't know what your software or Cachix is doing.

Can you tell me exactly what it will be doing to my system? What changes? Does it use a lot of disk space? Is it easy to undo? And is there anyone who recommends doing it who isn't associated to IHP?

[bluepoint]

Let alone that it appears on any forum that ever mentions haskell these days.