I think rio looks very reasonable, it just reuses common libs. foundation is a cool project but they e.g. implement their own text type which probably means you will have to do conversions as soon as you try to use other libs. base-noprelude is only useful if you want to avoid having access to the default prelude and/or if you want to create your own. classy prelude seems a bit overkill, the author later released rio so i’m not sure if classy should be considered deprecated. Cheers, Adam On Thu, 28 Jun 2018 at 08:23, Hilco Wijbenga <hilco.wijbenga@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all,

I've been looking for a different Prelude to, at minimum, default to Text instead of String but I'm sure there are other things that would be helpful. E.g., less focus on lists.

I had a look at [1] and protolude, classy-prelude, basic-prelude, foundation, safe-prelude, and rio all seem interesting. Maybe even base-noprelude?

I'm an advanced beginner (I don't think I qualify as intermediate yet). Going by [1], classy-prelude might not be such a good idea because of "scary error messages". And, I'm guessing, I would need to know Haskell better to take advantage of base-noprelude?

I would like to know your thoughts/suggestions/opinions/ideas. Also, if there are other preludes that might be of interest, do tell!

Cheers, Hilco

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I would suggest just using the text package and importing it qualified. Foundation has its own text type which is supposedly fast, but it introduces some complications as well. rio looks too involved to me. This all depends on your project - plenty of libraries have no need to depend on mtl or vector, so adding them as dependencies just makes your builds more fragile.  Lots of these libraries break cross-compilation too (or just make it more difficult). But if you're writing an application for use on your computer only, none of this matters. Also you shouldn't be afraid of lists. They have their place in functional programming and Haskell. On 06/28/2018 01:22 AM, Hilco Wijbenga wrote:

Hi all,

I've been looking for a different Prelude to, at minimum, default to Text instead of String but I'm sure there are other things that would be helpful. E.g., less focus on lists.

I had a look at [1] and protolude, classy-prelude, basic-prelude, foundation, safe-prelude, and rio all seem interesting. Maybe even base-noprelude?

I'm an advanced beginner (I don't think I qualify as intermediate yet). Going by [1], classy-prelude might not be such a good idea because of "scary error messages". And, I'm guessing, I would need to know Haskell better to take advantage of base-noprelude?

I would like to know your thoughts/suggestions/opinions/ideas. Also, if there are other preludes that might be of interest, do tell!

Cheers, Hilco

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