Tony Morris

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.

stack lets you easily install Haskell software on common operating systems. It's the most reliable easy way to do it. That's quite a useful trait! There are more reliable ways, but they're harder so deter most beginners.

nah

yeah nah

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?

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.