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nilved on April 7, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Yi – Text editor written in Haskell

Haskell can build self-contained binaries that don't require a 700MB compiler. Look for /-bin$/ packages.

apenguin on April 8, 2015 [–]

That depends upon such a package already being available -- it doesn't appear that Yi has any.

bsummer4 on April 8, 2015 | [–]

Yeah, Yi uses Xmonad style configuration. That is, it re-compiles itself when you modify the configuration file.

This approach means that Yi has to depend on the entire Haskell toolchain :(

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