Cabal hell is a solved problem these days. Solved three different competing ways --- nix, cabal new-build, Stack --- where ideally there'd just be one, but not

Cabal hell is a solved problem these days. Solved three different competing ways --- nix, cabal new-build, Stack --- where ideally there'd just be one, but not the issue it was five years ago. That doesn't mean dependency management is always easy. It's a hard problem in any language. But you won't find yourself in an inconsistent state that requires blowing away your installation if you use one of those three approaches.