Tony Morris

> 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?

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.

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.