i think @GabrielG439 said this in a talk once and i've found it a useful thing to remember sometimes:
> Cabal was built for managing packages (a single package) whereas Stack was built more for managing *projects*, that is, a collection of packages
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Stack is the only way I could get them building so I'd have to say yes.
I am constantly helping people, especially beginners, who trip over stack, but "not using stack." Cabal at least works. Try nix.
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I know you beat this particular horse to death but stack has always worked for me when I need it, and I do use Nix.
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Well, the horse is beating itself to death. I don't go out of my way to care about stack, yet there it is, breaking constantly for beginners. You'll see, there'll be one at the next FP course, there always is, "It's not working, why? By the way, I used stack."
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Last time I tried to use Cabal for a project, it got stuck on errors about zlib, whereas Stack built fine. I was in a Slack conversation with you at the time Tony, and you couldn't help me fix my issue. You still haven't told me what's wrong with Stack.
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I have explained why stack has zero use-cases enough times. The penalty of repeatedly explaining it, provokes resent. I have resolved the zlib issue before. I don't recall your issue.
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