Tony Morris

I've been teaching beginners for * years. I'm certain stack has never helped anyone. It's easy to make the mistake of believing otherwise.

I find that hard to believe. Almost everyone I’ve introduced to #Haskell has been through stack. I’m not aware of any friendlier alternative

The absence of stack is an improvement, especially for beginners. The poor beginner who I am helping right now agrees. And hundreds before.

How much time do you spend teaching your students how to use cabal? How specific are their instructions from you on using cabal? Now same questions with stack. I'm guessing a discrepancy here might explain why you observe your students having a harder time with stack.

0 Can we please stop talking about cabal? It's such an obvious deflection.

data Bool = Stack | Cabal

You seem to imply that there are other options. Would you kindly elucidate? What is the recommended approach for your students?

The confusion seems to be that @puffnfresh does not seem to be talking about dependency management at all. If you don’t want anything real world, go ahead and run ghci from the terminal, whether installed theough nix or apt-get or whatever, and it requires minimal assistance