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Fast, friendly GHCi. Version 0.4.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-05-29.
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Fast, friendly GHCi
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- ghcitty
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Project history and usage
ghcitty is a Rust frontend for GHCi that keeps the normal Haskell REPL underneath while adding terminal niceties such as highlighting, completion, multiline editing, Hoogle lookup, session replay, and auto-reload.
Project history
The public repository was created in April 2026 and describes ghcitty as part of the author's d4 collection. Its README presents the tool as a personal, modest frontend rather than a replacement for GHCi.
Adoption history
The project had only a short public history at the time of this enrichment run, so adoption evidence is limited to its Homebrew formula, Cargo installation instructions, Nix installation instructions, and repository-level documentation. Its significance is therefore best treated as emerging rather than established.
How it is used
Practitioners run ghcitty in a Haskell project directory and let it auto-detect Stack or Cabal projects, or pass `--plain` to force bare GHCi. The README also documents one-shot eval, JSON output, named sessions, persistent replay under `~/.local/share/ghcitty/<session>.hs`, and a simple `~/.ghcitty` key-value config file.
Why package nerds care
ghcitty is package-nerd-interesting as a tiny wrapper around an existing language REPL: it adds a modern terminal interface without asking users to abandon Cabal, Stack, GHCi commands, Hoogle, or editor-based workflows.
Timeline
- 2026: The GitHub repository was created.
- 2026: README documents Cargo, source, Nix, Stack, and Cabal-oriented usage.
- 2026: v0.2.0 was published as an official GitHub release.
Related projects
- The README positions ghcitty around GHCi, Cabal, Stack, GHCup, Hoogle, and the author's d4 collection.
Sources
security posture
No protected-tool coverage found yet
No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for ghcitty. 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
Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.
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Configuration files
Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.
- Unix
~/.ghcitty
executables
Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
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ghcitty | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
freshness
Version and freshness
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page generated2026-08-03
manager version0.4.0
manager updated2026-05-29
local dataunknown
upstreamnot available
latest detectednot detected
- okNo freshness warnings were generated.
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:ghcitty |
|---|---|
| Version | 0.4.0 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Homepage | https://github.com/mattlianje/ghcitty |
| Repository | https://github.com/mattlianje/ghcitty |
| Last updated | 2026-05-29T18:55:14Z |
| Pulse | updated |
| Bottle | not recorded |
| Service | none declared |
source trail
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