diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/purescript/purescript/default.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/purescript/purescript/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..2b6518eef91
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/purescript/purescript/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+{ fetchFromGitHub }:
+
+let
+  easyPS = import (fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "justinwoo";
+    repo = "easy-purescript-nix";
+    rev = "d383972c82620a712ead4033db14110497bc2c9c";
+    sha256 = "0hj85y3k0awd21j5s82hkskzp4nlzhi0qs4npnv172kaac03x8ms";
+  });
+
+in easyPS.purs
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 90daabcf890..5fa67857d06 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 { });