Re: [Haskell-cafe] System.IO but not with Data.String?

On Thu, 9 May 2024, Hilco Wijbenga wrote:

We have Text and ByteString as alternatives to String but as soon as you want to do anything IO related (read a file, get a directory's content, et cetera) it seems your only option is to use String.

Maybe you are looking for the new versions of 'filepath' and 'directory' packages that use the OsString type from 'os-string'?