Tony Morris

All of these were solved problems before stack existed. What is it do you think we were doing all those years? Waiting for this groundbreaking thing called stack?

I have no idea what you or anyone else was doing before stack, because the instructions given to beginners were fraught with problems that stack solved. As far as I know, cabal hell was a common experience.

You make this strange claim again, and yet I had been teaching FP for all those years, without all the scary problems with which someone was supposedly fraught. And it's not just me. What is it do you think we were doing when we were learning?

I have personally experienced big problems with cabal hell, and have helped dozens of people with similar problems. There absolutely was a problem that stack solved. Maybe the problem was using cabal at all? But that's how people said to use haskell.

Cabal hell never existed. You experienced a different problem. You called it cabal hell because that's what you were told to do. I find no other reasonable explanation. By "people", you mean, "the other beginners." I am sorry that happened to you.

What would you have called the problem that everyone else called cabal hell?

Have you ever met the beginner who tells you that IO is just a hack, difficult to use, and only exists to make solving problems harder? Their beginner friends pat them on the back for bravely standing up to the terrible imposition that is IO.

Is there a blog post somewhere which summarises the argument against stack for general applucation dev (not compiler dev)? @dibblego do you have a similar opinion on rvm or nvm as well?