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Install ghcid with Homebrew, dnf, Nix

Very low feature GHCi based IDE. Version 0.8.9 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-22. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#ghcid.

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macOS

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brew install ghcid

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overview

Package summary

Very low feature GHCi based IDE

Commands and aliases

  • ghcid

history

Project history and usage

ghcid is a deliberately small Haskell development tool that keeps a GHCi session running, reloads it when source files change, and presents compiler errors and warnings in a terminal-oriented workflow.

Project history

Neil Mitchell published ghcid on Hackage in 2014, with JPMoresmau credited as a co-author in the project README. The README frames the project as either "GHCi as a daemon" or "GHC plus a bit of an IDE", while stressing that it avoids editor integration, web servers, and dependency on the GHC library.

Adoption history

ghcid became a familiar tool in the Haskell package ecosystem because it sits between plain GHCi and heavier editor-language-server tooling. Its README points to Hackage and Stackage package surfaces and includes editor integrations for VS Code, Neovim, Vim, and Emacs, which helped it fit many existing Haskell editor habits.

How it is used

Practitioners use ghcid beside an editor, often with a project-specific .ghci file or .ghcid argument file. On save, it reloads the GHCi session, lists errors and warnings, and can run test expressions once the code is warning-free or error-free.

Why package nerds care

For package maintainers, ghcid is notable for making the REPL itself the build feedback loop. That keeps setup close to Cabal, Stack, and GHCi conventions rather than requiring a full IDE stack.

Timeline

  • 2014: ghcid 0.1 was uploaded to Hackage.
  • 2023: ghcid 0.8.9 was released on Hackage and GitHub.

Related projects

  • The README contrasts ghcid with ghcide, reflex-ghci, reflex-ghcide, Watchexec, entr, Watchman, and other file-watching or Haskell feedback tools.

security posture

No protected-tool coverage found yet

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for ghcid. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.

Install behavior

  • No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.

Recommended review

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Configuration files

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Unix
.ghcid in the current directoryan ancestor directory

executables

Installed executables

CommandKindExposureNote
ghcidexecutableindexed executableDiscovered from the local executable index.

freshness

Version and freshness

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page generated2026-08-03
manager version0.8.9
manager updated2026-07-22
local dataunknown
upstreamnot available
latest detectednot detected
  • okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:ghcid
Version0.8.9
Package managerHomebrew
Homepagehttps://github.com/ndmitchell/ghcid
Repositoryhttps://github.com/ndmitchell/ghcid
Last updated2026-07-22T05:27:50Z
Pulseupdated
Bottlenot recorded
Servicenone declared

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Nix95%

ghcid

nix profile install nixpkgs#ghcid
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Ghcid
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dnf95%

ghc-ghcid 0.8.9-14.fc45

Haskell ghcid library

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/ghcid

sudo dnf install ghc-ghcid
  • License: BSD-3-Clause
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: ghcid
  • 30 dependencies
  • 2 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Ghcid
Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: ghc-ghcid from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst
dnf95%

ghc-ghcid-devel 0.8.9-14.fc45

Haskell ghcid library development files

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/ghcid

sudo dnf install ghc-ghcid-devel
  • License: BSD-3-Clause
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: ghcid
  • 3 dependencies
  • 3 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Ghcid
Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: ghc-ghcid-devel from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst
dnf95%

ghc-ghcid-doc 0.8.9-14.fc45

Haskell ghcid library documentation

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/ghcid

sudo dnf install ghc-ghcid-doc
  • License: BSD-3-Clause
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: noarch
  • Source Package: ghcid
  • 1 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Ghcid
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dnf95%

ghc-ghcid-prof 0.8.9-14.fc45

Haskell ghcid profiling library

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/ghcid

sudo dnf install ghc-ghcid-prof
  • License: BSD-3-Clause
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: ghcid
  • 2 dependencies
  • 2 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Ghcid
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ghcid 0.8.9-14.fc45

GHCi based bare bones IDE

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/ghcid

sudo dnf install ghcid
  • License: BSD-3-Clause
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: ghcid
  • 9 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Ghcid
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