GHC can be installed locally without stack. Been doing it for 15 years.
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There isn’t anything as easy for haskell. The problem is that many people in the haskell community don’t care about easy. The “it works for me” syndrome is very strong. I’m still waiting for a nix setup that works on macs, or with ghcjs, without endless tweaking.
No, we *do* care about easy, which is why I definitely do not use stack. If I could fob off all the pain to you every time it comes up, I think you'd change your mind about what you are calling "easy." Alas, it is me, and students, who must suffer this pain. Thanks for that.
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If your students have faced some problems with stack then it doesn’t mean stack must die. That is a ridiculous opinion. Stack works for many people, and for many of them *nothing else works*. I personally have met people who would have given up on Haskell if not for stack.
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FYI, I am counting the strawmen. It's fucking amazing.
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stack has bugs. I've encountered some failed installs here and there. By and large, "stack install" works, and all alternatives to install Haskell software are an order of magnitude harder. When installing Haskell software is this hard, many give up (and I've seen it first hand)
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> By and large, "stack install" works :)
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This is exactly the problem i am suffering from. Most tutorial encourage using stack and for the most part stacks work, unitl it suddenly doesn't (for reasons cryptic to me atleast). The tutorials that encourage nix, rarely explain what nix is / how nix works / why nix .
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Also i somewhat find it ridiculous, that to learn or play with haskell, i have to learn yet another language/ package manager. It is overwhelming for a beginner. PS: i
the data61 course. Learning a lot from it. - Show replies
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