<div dir="auto">Remember GHC's motto is 'avoid success at all costs'. Then naturally it is prohibitively difficult to get to use GHC.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">For students/people who you want to encourage to love Haskell, especially on Windows,</div><div dir="auto">I'm astonished you're not using Hugs, especially WinHugs (2-click install).</div><div dir="auto">Despite being over a dozen years unsupported it is still orders-of-magnitude more friendly than GHC,</div><div dir="auto"> and has plenty of functionality (in Hugsmode) for undergraduate level. </div><div dir="auto">What's more Haskell from the intro texts just works on it;</div><div dir="auto">whereas GHC throws all sorts of obscure advanced type errors.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I don't think powershell is a 'standard tool'. I use mostly Windows machines,</div><div dir="auto">I'm aware of powershell, I've never used it.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Chocolatey is an abhorence. Fortunately I've never had to use it;</div><div dir="auto">I don't know why GHC would inflict it on anybody.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Increasingly, GHC HQ is a cult/elite that doesn't want any new members.</div><div dir="auto">The difficulties in trying to use GHC just show how exclusive it has become.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">AntC</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">> I appreciate that these things are standard tools for Windows
developers, but it's worth noting how much harder it can make things
for completely new people (either new developers or new to Windows).
> At the start of the year, I prepared install instructions for university
students who would be using Haskell as part of a first year CS
course. We needed to use GHC 8.6.5 because certain libraries were not
available for GHC 8.8.x (their base upper bounds hadn't updated, which
ruled out haskell-dev), and tried to use Chocolatey as an experiment.
> It was remarkably tough to get students set up on their own machines. I
was planning on recommending the Haskell Platform installer for Semester
2 this year, and am disappointed to find that it no longer exists.
> If it becomes too hard for students to install Haskell on their own
Windows machines, it may become too hard for us to use Haskell as an
educational tool, and I'd consider that a tragedy.
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