<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 3 Apr 2022 at 14:11, Tom Ellis <<a href="mailto:tom-lists-haskell-cafe-2017@jaguarpaw.co.uk">tom-lists-haskell-cafe-2017@jaguarpaw.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Sun, Apr 03, 2022 at 07:57:47PM +0200, Bardur Arantsson wrote:<br>
> On 03/04/2022 19.34, Tom Ellis wrote:</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">It is not doing<br>
right by the community to publish information that we cannot support<br>
or verify.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>A key factor with respect to the problem I am seeing at large, over large periods of time, is that the Haskell community has a very, very strong tendency to start new efforts instead of contributing to existing ones. We have witnessed it in the appearance of installation tools, language
extensions, competing libraries, efforts to control/guide the discourse
regarding key parts of the Haskell infrastructure, you name it. There were excellent, excellent methods to install and setup haskell quickly that did not warrant the creation of yet more methods. And yet, those have been created, standard installation methods abandoned, and here we are. The feeling I have is that we are going around in circles.</div><div><br></div><div>That has left a lot of people burned out. What was once a joy (programming in Haskell) has become, for many, a drain, and they have abandoned their work when a competing effort was hyped up. I'm sure you can all identify Haskellers who have left and/or taken very long breaks due to burn out.<br></div><div><br></div><div></div><div></div><div>The attitude we should have with respect to these efforts is not "can we focus on advertising what is maintained", but rather "what is the story we would like to tell, about the language, and the community".</div><div><br></div><div>I would like the community to avoid giving a few people control over the conversation. I would like technical merit to trump over hype. And there's a lot of technical merit in solutions outside ghcup/stack that deserve attention and recognition. And the fact that not all of us agree indicates that, as a community, we should recognize those efforts and not erase them.<br><br></div><div>To achieve that effect, it's enough to keep them at the bottom of the page, and anyone who determines that the effort is maintained should be welcome to move it to the top.</div><div><br></div><div>Ivan<br></div><br></div></div>