Tony Morris

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.

This is exactly the problem i am suffering from. Most tutorial encourage using stack and for the most part stacks work, unitl it suddenly doesn't (for reasons cryptic to me atleast). The tutorials that encourage nix, rarely explain what nix is / how nix works / why nix .

Also i somewhat find it ridiculous, that to learn or play with haskell, i have to learn yet another language/ package manager. It is overwhelming for a beginner. PS: i the data61 course. Learning a lot from it.

I'm sorry that has been made difficult for you. If you need help with learning, please ask in forums such as the QFPL/Data61 channel.

I started off with CIS194 and stack seemed to work no problems, and IntelliJ + Haskell pluging could import my project which was nice for someone used to having an IDE. I can't get the NICTA course to build :(