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I've tried many times to learn Haskell. The problem is always with setting up a compiler, getting packages, setting environment, not getting a ton of gigabytes

by fiatjaf 11y ago

I've tried many times to learn Haskell. The problem is always with setting up a compiler, getting packages, setting environment, not getting a ton of gigabytes of duplicated packages, getting useful vim support etc.

tome 11y ago
Have you tried stack? It was released about six months ago and has revolutionised Haskell's offering in this area.
- Volt 11y ago
  >not getting a ton of gigabytes of duplicated packages How does stack help here?
  - tel 11y ago
    You build against a fixed set of packages defined by "Stackage" so that you only need to build them all once. While this set evolves over time, if many (or all?) of your projects target the same Stackage LTS then you won't need to rebuild dependencies.
  - tobik 11y ago
    Dependencies are downloaded and compiled once for all your projects using the same Stackage release and are shared between projects. In the end you still might have duplicated dependencies if you use different stackage.org releases but it's a much better situation than using Cabal sandboxes where every project has its own copy of dependencies.