Re: [Haskell-cafe] Best platform for development with GHC?

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 3:02 AM, Ketil Malde wrote:

"Dmitri O.Kondratiev" writes:

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Which platform - Mac OS X, Linux or Win32 is best for development with GHC today?

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How are things with Ubuntu?

I use Ubuntu.  Most stuff is fairly up-to-date, but even with six-month releases, it's lagging the cutting edge, and GHC is still 6.12.

Developers should be using older versions of GHC because they cannot be sure users will have an up-to-date GHC. Heck, I test my application on GHC 6.10 before I release. You find out interesting things such as the fact that even though Data.Map.foldWithKey is deprecated, the preferred function is not available in 6.10. John