Chris Kahn writes:
I would like to second this thought. Using Haskell for package descriptions needs to be thought out and executed with great care and attention. It's really easy to go off the rails.
Scala's build system lets you do very powerful things, but it also makes things unnecessarily complicated and mystifying for beginners. At my previous work where we used Scala extensively, there were many times where the team simply resorted to external tools because figuring out how to make some seemingly trivial change to an SBT module was too time consuming.
Let me guess (have no idea about sbt) -- unbridled Turing completeness? Declarativity is king for configuration, and Turing completeness ain't it -- please, see my other mail about subsetting Haskell. -- с уважениeм / respectfully, Косырев Сергей