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Can hledger be run in a Haskell repl? That sounds way more useful than a command line terminal. (Otherwise I'm not sure why it matters whether it was written in Haskell?)

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>Otherwise I'm not sure why it matters whether it was written in Haskell?

It's a common trope with less popular languages. Often when I check out some project on GitHub, the first "feature" in the readme is "written in rust".

Yep it has a Haskell interface! That's one common feature of many Haskell CLIs - they tend to be a statically typed library thinly wrapped into a CLI.

My favorite part of the (extensive) Haskell API is `Hledger.Cli.Script` [0]. It re-exports all the most commonly used functions and data types, meaning you're just one import away from everything you need to get started.

[0]: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/hledger-1.32.3/docs/Hled...

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