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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yes, GHC is good for beginners. Nobody in my classes trying to use Stack has moved onto "ok it's working let's learn"
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Mmm that is not the feeling i have watching the calls to ghc and ghc-pkg done by cabal -v3
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I mean that it seems that manage dependencies using directly ghc and ghc-pkg is not suitable for beginners
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...so you need some tool (scripts, cabal, nix, stack?) to wrap ghc? Or is there another option?
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