Tony Morris

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.

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)

> By and large, "stack install" works :)

Do you mean to suggest it doesn't? Maybe nix is better, but can nix be as easy as "brew install stack && stack setup && stack install" ? You are dissing stack but do you have anything better than that?

I like to take excursions to analyse apologetics, such as preceding a claim with "by and large." That aside, no stack definitely does not work. It's bullshit. Of course I have something better than stack. WTF?

In my experience, "by and large it works" is the best usable solution Haskell currently has. What do you have that is better than stack at allowing people to easily install Haskell software?

Well, my team uses nix, but I would also never burden a student with that either. There are better solutions to stack in every context, but it's not the same solution in each of those contexts.

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?