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I think generally the advice to beginners is to ignore most of Hackage and focus on the Haskell platform—which is frankly kind of terrible advice. It's intended
by tel 14y ago
I think generally the advice to beginners is to ignore most of Hackage and focus on the Haskell platform—which is frankly kind of terrible advice. It's intended to avoid things like the enumerator/iteratee/conduit/pipes madness and focus on a stable library interface, but almost all of the fun is being developed on the bleeding edge of Hackage.
I'd agree completely that this is a deficiency with the Haskell community, but I also don't see it stopping until there's a larger critical mass of new users—a chicken and egg problem, certainly.
- freshhawk 14y agoI don't think it's a chicken and egg problem quite. It's true that the types of people that do these kinds of things arrive when you have critical mass, but that's just statistics. I think you can recruit people to do this kind of thing, or at least encourage people to do so, but it would require community management and such which doesn't really exist in the haskell community. If I felt cruel I would nominate dons to do it, since it's so easy to want to give more work to the guy who's already doing a ridiculous amount of good work.