example: "brew install stack && stack setup && stack install" works on various mac machines I used it on to install my packages. is there anything nearly as easy as this?
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Context: Haskell learner wants to write a small project that uses a few Haskell libraries from hackage. "Nix" is too much of a burden to learn simultaneously. "cabal install" fails cryptically. What should the learner do?
So, now we are imposing anti-learning onto arbitrary students? What if the student is not anti-learning? That's not a context. Cabal install does not fail any more cryptically than other shitty build tools.
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cabal install fails cryptically far more often than stack does, and that's the point. There are a lot of people who want to give haskell a shot. Their budget (in time, energy) for learning is understandably limited, they'd rather spend it on learning haskell than nix.
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for this situation, and I believe it encompasses a majority of potential Haskell users, stack by far works best. This makes haskell usable by many more than otherwise it would be. That makes stack one of the largest contributions to haskell.
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