There are several alternative Prelude implementations, but as far as I am aware none of them address all of these issues. Since most of the other libraries depe

There are several alternative Prelude implementations, but as far as I am aware none of them address all of these issues. Since most of the other libraries depend on the default Prelude, especially the type class hierarchy it establishes, the none breaking changes they could make are very limited. For a discussion of one of those proposals see http://www.yesodweb.com/blog/2012/08/classy-prelude-good-bad-ugly http://www.yesodweb.com/blog/2012/08/classy-prelude-good-bad.... Things could be worse, take Scala for example.