I pick on Cabal because when I started Haskell a few years ago, it cost me days and days... and almost made me hate Haskell. I learned to get past it and still

I pick on Cabal because when I started Haskell a few years ago, it cost me days and days... and almost made me hate Haskell. I learned to get past it and still <3 Haskell. But it isn't just Haskell, it is lots of less popular languages and toolkits, they have significant "offramps" via deploy problems, tooling problems, build problems (but not pure language problems, the core language might be gorgeous). That said, the ability to build a static binary quickly and scp to a server is ... amazing. The convention (not forced) of localizing what you depend on in your /src and making hermetic commits is amazing in practice. It means that I simply git clone FOO && go build BAR and it builds and spits out a static binary I can ./bin/BAR