Tony Morris

Stack was such a massive improvement over what came before. If it's a mistake for teaching, that's a very recent fact.

I have respect for @dibblego. I've come around to his position many times in the past. So it's totally frustrating when he goes off on these anti-Stack bends and I just can't track the argument.

I share your opinion exactly.

No argument was made. Also, you're wrong. It's not recent. It's an opinion shared by many; in particular, those who are committed to teaching effectively.

it's just experience: "hey Brian so I tried to use Stack and I'm getting this weird problem..." over and over and over

This is all just too vague. An opinion shared by many would get me using Scala over Haskell, so I'm not sure what to do with that. And I've not had much of "some weird error" with Stack for a while now. Did no one track it down? I mean cabal new-build is finicky still too.

You know what's vague? "stack is good for beginners" The hundreds of beginners, who, after three days, know Haskell/FP way better than all the people claiming this, disagree. Where to from here?

I don't get why you feel the need for senseless insult here. Stack was great for me as a beginner and all of the beginners I've helped learn fp. It hasn't been for you. Obviously there's something going on, and it's not that either of us are in imagination land