diff --git a/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix b/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix
index 8d794dc84fc..3abd745104a 100644
--- a/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix
+++ b/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix
@@ -2370,6 +2370,11 @@
     github = "juliendehos";
     name = "Julien Dehos";
   };
+  justinwoo = {
+    email = "moomoowoo@gmail.com";
+    github = "justinwoo";
+    name = "Justin Woo";
+  };
   jwiegley = {
     email = "johnw@newartisans.com";
     github = "jwiegley";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/purescript/purescript/default.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/purescript/purescript/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..5e84f2d874a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/purescript/purescript/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, zlib, gmp, ncurses5, lib }:
+
+# from justinwoo/easy-purescript-nix
+# https://github.com/justinwoo/easy-purescript-nix/blob/d383972c82620a712ead4033db14110497bc2c9c/purs.nix
+
+let
+  dynamic-linker = stdenv.cc.bintools.dynamicLinker;
+
+  patchelf = libPath :
+    if stdenv.isDarwin
+      then ""
+      else
+        ''
+          chmod u+w $PURS
+          patchelf --interpreter ${dynamic-linker} --set-rpath ${libPath} $PURS
+          chmod u-w $PURS
+        '';
+
+in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "purs-simple";
+  version = "v0.12.3";
+
+  src =
+    if stdenv.isDarwin
+    then
+    fetchurl {
+      url = "https://github.com/purescript/purescript/releases/download/v0.12.3/macos.tar.gz";
+      sha256 = "1f916gv4fz571l4jvr15xjnsvjyy4nljv2ii9njwlm7k6yr5m0qn";
+    }
+    else
+    fetchurl {
+      url = "https://github.com/purescript/purescript/releases/download/v0.12.3/linux64.tar.gz";
+      sha256 = "1fad862a2sv4njxbbcfzibbi585m6is3ywb94nmjl8ax254baj3i";
+    };
+
+
+  buildInputs = [ zlib
+                  gmp
+                  ncurses5 ];
+  libPath = lib.makeLibraryPath buildInputs;
+  dontStrip = true;
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    mkdir -p $out/bin
+    PURS="$out/bin/purs"
+
+    install -D -m555 -T purs $PURS
+    ${patchelf libPath}
+
+    mkdir -p $out/etc/bash_completion.d/
+    $PURS --bash-completion-script $PURS > $out/etc/bash_completion.d/purs-completion.bash
+  '';
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "A strongly-typed functional programming language that compiles to JavaScript";
+    homepage = http://www.purescript.org/;
+    license = licenses.bsd3;
+    maintainers = [ maintainers.justinwoo ];
+    platforms = [ "x86_64-linux" "x86_64-darwin" ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 90daabcf890..d466fe55e1f 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -7137,8 +7137,8 @@ in
 
   all-cabal-hashes = callPackage ../data/misc/hackage { };
 
-  # Build with ghc 8.4 due to https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/53597
-  purescript = haskell.lib.justStaticExecutables haskell.packages.ghc844.purescript;
+  purescript = callPackage ../development/compilers/purescript/purescript { };
+
   psc-package = haskell.lib.justStaticExecutables
     (haskellPackages.callPackage ../development/compilers/purescript/psc-package { });