[melling]

It sounds like tooling has improved but it's still the biggest hurdle for beginners:

"Improving IDE support is the single easiest way to lower the entry barrier to newcomers."

[etcinit]

I think stack has helped in that area. As a beginner, I found stack's ability to create a new project from a template very useful when getting started with projects.

The plugins for vim and Atom do a really good job for auto-completion and showing linter/compiler warnings, but they are a bit hard to setup initially.

[bloaf]

And they graduate from "a bit hard" to "downright painful" if you want to do it in windows. The consequences of doing it wrong can be severe[1].

[1] https://github.com/atom-haskell/ide-haskell/issues/83

[mark_l_watson]

+1 yes! The stack new project templates have saved me a lot of time. Stack, I'm general, is a great improvement in my device work flow.