Tony Morris

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.

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.

"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.

What tools do you use to avoid specifying every version number of your dependencies?