Tony Morris

stack doesn't work great if you expect to just use `ghc` or `ghci` on the command line. symlinking the one copied into `~/.stack` isn't obvs

I've had pretty good luck with `stack exec ghc -- ...`.

or even `stack exec zsh` :)

Trollololololol

Stack has three things I find useful for teaching: one tool for everything, a "new" scaffolding, and --file-watch. @dibblego lobbied against monolithic tools (so ghcid instead of --file-watch), but this to me is a professional Haskell concern, not someone just learning fresh.

I prefer Nix for professional Haskell work, even though curation of packages is not perfect. If we're going to say Stack is a mistake for teaching Haskell, I'd really like to know exactly what bad happens to the student.

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.