On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Robert Dockins wrote:
FWIW, I find the same phenomenon with Edison. I get very little feedback about it positive or negative; I really have no idea how many people are using it. I guess people are more willing to roll their own data structures or use the standard libs.
It might be from a desire to limit dependencies.
For me this is a strong reason, yes. It's not only the immediate dependency, but the dependent library might rely on other libraries or compiler features and thus decreases portability.
If that's the case, perhaps continuing cabal developments will change that.
I hope that this will solve the problem. Since I recently got to know that Edison contains EnumSet, which I think is useful for many FFIs, I will certainly use Edison in future.