This sounds sadly like my experiences trying to get the Yi editor to install. I love Haskell in theory, but the build system is so painful if you aren't an expert!
The same can be said about Ruby, except that my experiences with Ruby are worse than with Haskell. With Haskell, you can get a pretty nice "batteries included" setup by installing the latest Haskell platform package.
With Ruby, you have to learn to use rvm, bundler and whatnot just to get a recent version of Ruby installed. Many distributions ship with quite old versions of Ruby and the Ruby official release tarballs have been unreliable (version number doesn't change, tarball contents does, etc).
Lots of languages seem to suffer from similar problems.
With Ruby, you have to learn to use rvm, bundler and whatnot just to get a recent version of Ruby installed. Many distributions ship with quite old versions of Ruby and the Ruby official release tarballs have been unreliable (version number doesn't change, tarball contents does, etc).
Lots of languages seem to suffer from similar problems.