What do you mean by nobody succeeds? I see most new Haskellers using stack and they experience fewer issues then I saw them have with cabal. Specifically what are you seeing?
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This discussion should not invoke cabal. It is irrelevant. The discussion, if it were to remain faithful to the original claim, is contrasting stack against not stack.
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That's. *Hilarious*.
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Replying to @TheWizardTower @dibblego and
"Stack sucks." "But why? Loads of people are way more productive with Stack than cabal." "That doesn't count because I say so."
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nobody is saying "Cabal is good for beginners and you must use it" - so no, it's really not about Cabal.
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ah gotcha ... so is the other alternative nix?
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my team uses Nix for everything so some people have used it, but no, I get beginners to just grab GHC however they want.
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sure but I guess I don’t really follow are you saying to use ghc directly or something else?
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Both Brian and I have used GHCi directly (for teaching) for over a decade, as do many other teachers.
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sure I guess I miss understood the entire conversation. I thought you were saying stack is the wrong choice for beginners projects.
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