Stack is the only way I could get them building so I'd have to say yes.
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Stack is one-stop shopping for "stack new" scaffolding and "stack build --file-watch." It also brew installs pretty easily (maybe Cabal does too). If Cabal did this all, I think we could stop this debate. It's not like it can't. Stack just prioritized features like these.
Have you ever noticed that any criticism of stack, reasonable or otherwise, always comes with a response of, "but cabal!"? This is not a coincidence. There is no debate happening. Nothing to be "stopped." You're in the trap.
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I listed features that Stack seems to have implemented much more acceptably than other tools. When people want these features, they use Stack. It may have some failures, but not so much when using base and a few pure Haskell libraries. The story gets much weaker with FFI.
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Also, there seems to be an odd presumption that people can't move from Stack to Nix or whatever later on. I don't see what the concern really is.
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