The absence of stack is an improvement, especially for beginners. The poor beginner who I am helping right now agrees. And hundreds before.
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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.
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nah
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Replying to @dibblego @puffnfresh and
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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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.
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siiigh, my students want easy, not GHCJS, Git dependencies or whatever you want. Nix works great on macOS, has one attribute to change for GHCJS and supports Got dependencies btw, but irrelevant
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Replying to @puffnfresh @EyalL and
Can you point me to the ghcjs and nix setup which works so well? I’m willing to give it another shot really. And I’m speaking from experience where nix on MacOS was horribly broken till about a year ago and I had to use docker for everything. It was a terrible dev experience.
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Twitter is not a good medium for this but I'm always happy to help people with Nix/Haskell stuff. IRC is often good. That work?
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Replying to @puffnfresh @EyalL and
Yeah sure I’ll ping you on IRC. Thanks!
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