[mark_l_watson]

I think Haskell tooling is pretty good now. VSCode with the Haskell plugins is simple to setup. I used to use Emacs for Haskell, but the VSCode support is now so good that I just take the easy route.

Stack and stackage made package management much easier for me. I am an enthusiastic, but not great Haskell programmer so I like running the ‘hlint’ linter program for hints on improving my code.

My heart is really with Common Lisp, but Haskell is also a pleasure to use and the tooling seems much better to me than five years ago.

[metreo]

I think Haskell versioning is highly bifurcated.

[codygman]

You mean like SemVer vs the default whose name I can't remember?

[metreo]

I mean like installing and managing multiple versions of the compiler toolchain is painful.

[sullyj3]

I mean, it's all pretty well automated by stack, the only painful part is that it can take a long time and use a lot of storage.

[metreo]

Sure it's pretty well automated, but not a great experience.

[tome]

Is there something about ghcup that doesn't do the job for you? You ask it to install a particular version of GHC and Cabal for you. It does it. Multiple versions can exist together. Job done.

https://www.haskell.org/ghcup/

[shirogane86x]

the default is pvp [1] and I think most packages use that and not SemVer? or, at least, I can't remember off the top of my head of specifically pinning a package with SemVer.

[1] https://pvp.haskell.org/