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by marcosdumay 3056 days ago
> 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.

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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.

> 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.