diff --git a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-ghc-8.4.x.nix b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-ghc-8.4.x.nix
index 4e953b7b6af4..e8c138e594cd 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-ghc-8.4.x.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-ghc-8.4.x.nix
@@ -40,6 +40,10 @@ self: super: {
   unix = null;
   xhtml = null;
 
+  # Restricts aeson to <1.4
+  # https://github.com/purescript/purescript/pull/3537
+  purescript = doJailbreak super.purescript;
+
   # https://github.com/jcristovao/enclosed-exceptions/issues/12
   enclosed-exceptions = dontCheck super.enclosed-exceptions;
 
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 91f9aaf23b30..6928775e9bea 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -7082,7 +7082,8 @@ in
 
   all-cabal-hashes = callPackage ../data/misc/hackage { };
 
-  purescript = haskell.lib.justStaticExecutables haskellPackages.purescript;
+  # Build with ghc 8.4 due to https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/53597
+  purescript = haskell.lib.justStaticExecutables haskell.packages.ghc844.purescript;
   psc-package = haskell.lib.justStaticExecutables
     (haskellPackages.callPackage ../development/compilers/purescript/psc-package { });