Don Stewart
I'll just quickly mention one factor that contributes:
* In 2.5 years we've gone from 10 libraries on Hackage to 2023 (literally!)
That is a massive API to try to manage, hence the continuing move to focus on automated QA on Hackage, and automated tools -- no one wants to have to resolve those dependencies by hand.
I think the "release early, release often" slogan is an affect on this as well: we encourage library writers to release once they have something that _works_ rather than waiting until it is perfect. The fact that we encourage smaller, more modular libraries over large monolithic ones also affects this. When considering Haskell vs Python, I wonder if the "stability" of Python's libraries is due to their relative maturity in that the "fundamental" libraries have had time to settle down. -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic Ivan.Miljenovic@gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com