What kind of problems do you have with stack? I have never once had a problem with stack that wasn't solved by running stack upgrade. Stack is how I got started as a beginner; before that the only code I managed to run used the prelude. I am legitimately puzzled.https://twitter.com/dibblego/status/973710741860630528 …
In short, stack over-specialises for the unlikely case, for a claimed benefit that doesn't actually exist. I am sympathetic toward beginners trying to get started, but stack is definitely not helping, even though those same beginners will claim otherwise. Progress is stunted.
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I have no doubt that my understanding of Haskell would be deepened if I learned to use cabal-install, but I don't really see how my Haskell learning has been stunted. I also don't know about any beginner friendly documentation about how to use cabal-install. Can you recommend?
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I don't think the discussion is "stack versus cabal." It is this perpetuating belief that causes a significant problem in progress. I realised that I played on it though. Ultimately, it's not a progressive discussion.
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I don't really understand how the stack use-case is that specialized. As I understand it, the assumption stack makes is that most developers don't need to worry too much about which version of some library they are using. That seems like most beginners and production teams.
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"Most developers don't need to worry" about such and such. I have never worried about this thing, not for at least a decade before stack existed and not subsequently either.
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