<div dir="ltr">I work with a lot of Haskell beginners and the Cabal problems went away when sandboxes were added to Cabal and the learners started using a sandbox for every project.<div><br></div><div>I've only seen a handful (one hand, 5 fingers) of problems since then that weren't attributable to, "wasn't using a sandbox". Of those, about half were the user doing something uncommon/unusual.</div><div><br></div><div>I have a tutorial here <a href="http://howistart.org/posts/haskell/1">http://howistart.org/posts/haskell/1</a> which among other things, covers the basics of using sandboxes.</div><div><br></div><div>Library maturity is my only worry with production Haskell. Not enough eyeballs and all that. It's not enough to stop me or my colleagues using it in production though. I can fix libraries, I can't fix Scala.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 1:21 PM, Joe Hillenbrand <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joehillen@gmail.com" target="_blank">joehillen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">> On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 6:21 AM, Gregory Guthrie <<a href="mailto:guthrie@mum.edu">guthrie@mum.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
</span><span class="">> And in my experience the cabal problems are the "fatal-flaw";<br>
<br>
</span>Big +1 here. Cabal is the biggest thing keeping me from aggressively<br>
promoting Haskell in industry. The risk of promoting Haskell now is<br>
that people will try out Haskell, hit a cabal issue, give up, and then<br>
form a bad opinion of Haskell because of it.<br>
<br>
There is saying "If a user has a bad experience, that's a bug."<br>
<br>
I've been patiently awaiting the Backpack overhaul before promoting<br>
Haskell in the workplace. [1]<br>
<br>
[1] <a href="https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Backpack" target="_blank">https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Backpack</a><br>
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