Maintainable configuration files. Navigate to each package's directory for their respective READMEs. You can download pre-built binaries for Windows, OS X and Linux on the release page. You can then click the "Help" button in the bottom right corner, which will show you a nix-env command that you can run to install the prebuilt executable. You will probably want to use the shared caches hosted at cache.dhall-lang.org and dhall.cachix.org when doing Nix development. This is not required, but this will save you a lot of time so that you don't have to build as many dependencies from scratch the first time. If you prefer installing the binaries locally in a nix shell environment instead, just run nix-shell in the top-level directory. This option provides additional flexibility with respect to overriding some of the default parameters (e.g. the compiler version), which makes it particularly useful for developers.