[cyclinghacker]

My advice would be start with stack and hpack, and remain with your editor or IDE of choice to start with. Learning any new language is difficult enough without having to also deal with a different workflow.

This is my recipe for starting with haskell and intellij: - install stack, run `stack new helloworld simple-hpack` - make sure it builds: `cd helloworld && stack test --exec helloworld` - install https://github.com/rikvdkleij/intellij-haskell and follow the `Getting started' guide

[marcosdumay]

> My advice would be start with stack and hpack

Interesting. I would advice to start with plain cabal. One has to learn how to deal with cabal anyway, so there's no point adding stack on top of it from the start.

[bsummer4]

One has to learn how to deal with cabal anyway

Nah, I haven't used cabal-install in years now. Because of hpack, you don't even need to write .cabal files.

The only time I touch cabal is when I need to write Setup.hs files, which is, mercifully, quite rare.

[st1ck]

> One has to learn how to deal with cabal anyway

With *.cabal project files yes, for sure.

But `stack` has completely replaced `cabal` command for me. I don't even have it installed.