In your blog you mentioned you asked Claude about botan and it said:
Binary distributions for Botan might not be available, and building from source—given that it is written in C++—imposes a heavy burden in terms of setting up a C++ compiler.
This is hot garbage. GHC already kinda depends on C++ (e.g. building the text package will link against stdc++). There's virtually no operating system that doesn't have access to a C++ compiler. Users who want to link statically will have to jump through some hoops. But that's already the case for many packages. We could also provide a botan-clib package that converts the upstream library into a haskell package. I've done the same for libffi. It's not always trivial, but it can be done. On September 25, 2026 2:07:39 AM UTC, "Kazu Yamamoto (山本和彦) via Haskell-Cafe" <haskell-cafe@haskell.org> wrote:
Hello cafe,
I have posted a new blog article on "crypton": https://kazu-yamamoto.hatenablog.jp/entry/2026/09/25/110313
--Kazu
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