Stack is broken in WSL1, but I can use an older cabal just fine. So now I work on the same projects with stack on my linux laptop and cabal on my Windows desktop.
-- Keith
Sent from my phone with K-9 Mail.
On 18 September 2021 18:52:24 UTC, Alexis Praga
Hi,
As an intermediate beginner, I've been back into Haskell for the last months for a small project, using stack as the building tool.
Why stack ? A few years back, I learned that it was the "best" way to build projects to avoid "cabal hell", which I understood at the time as "managing dependencies with cabal is hard".
As such, I've use stack since and have been quite happy with it. The only drawback is that building a project can be quite long.
This is usually not a problem, except for writing Haskell scripts using shelly (for example), where the stack layout is a bit impractical for fast-paced development. A solution is to use `runghc` or a script interpreter [1].
However, I've seen some projects where cabal is used to build directly instead of cabal, so it looks like the situation improved.
My question is this: in 2021, is there a reason to switch back to cabal ?
Thanks,
[1] https://www.fpcomplete.com/haskell/tutorial/stack-script/
--
Alexis Praga