In the case of the text package, it’s a well-respected de facto standard regardless of its official status, and probably as safe a dependency as you’re ever goi

In the case of the text package, it’s a well-respected de facto standard regardless of its official status, and probably as safe a dependency as you’re ever going to get in practice. Anecdotally, everything serious I write in Haskell uses Data.Text by default these days, and just converts to and from other representations like String as necessary. It’s mildly inconvenient for things like writing Show instances or integrating with a library that uses a different convention, but still better in almost any context than using String by default IME.