[Haskell-cafe] Re: ANNOUNCE: binary: high performance, pure binary serialisation

Joel Reymont wrote:

May I ask why TH is easier to maintain than DrIFT?

I'm not familiar with DrIFT.

The reason is personal, and very silly. I only use ghc, so TH is available automatically. Like you, I have never used DrIFT, so I would have to get to know it, and install it everywhere I want to compile my program. From a very quick look at the DrIFT homepage, installation might be nontrivial on a windows machine without some cygwin-like environment. At any rate, *for me* it's more work than using TH, because I'm familiar with the latter and already depend on its presence.

Why would I prefer one over the other?

I wouldn't know. Please do not let my prejudice influence your preference :-). Greetings, Arie