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> Really hoping OCaml and Haskell can improve their package management story - they are getting there, but it still holds me back from really using them on a da

> Really hoping OCaml and Haskell can improve their package management story - they are getting there, but it still holds me back from really using them on a daily basis. Cabal 3.x with Nix-style buildscovers all packaging needs that I ever had with Haskell ecosystem[1]. And there's a new wave of tooling based on incremental Nix builds, that you can begin using today [2] [1] https://cabal.readthedocs.io/en/latest/nix-local-build-overview.html https://cabal.readthedocs.io/en/latest/nix-local-build-overv... [2] https://github.com/nmattia/snack https://github.com/nmattia/snack

bjz_ 6y ago
Yeah, it's really great to see the progress there. However, afaik, it still doesn't freeze packages by default, or let you have multiple packages of the same version in a dependency tree[1]. The former can be worked around, but it's annoying that it's not the default. The latter is more frustrating however! [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23454711 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23454711
- lallysingh 6y ago
  Stack does this, if I understand what you're saying. Stack+nix has worked quite well for me for a few projects.
marcosdumay 6y ago
Yep. Cabal 3.x is great, better than anything else I've seen for any other language. As the article says, it just needs to correct the default behavior (deprecating the old behavior is on the roadmap, interestingly, the documentation doesn't even say what is the standard right now) and some improvements on usability (just better docs goes a long way).