[Haskell-cafe] Haskell development in Mac OS X after Gatekeeper

[Manuel M T Chakravarty]

Stefan Monnier:
>> I think, Apple has made their stance quite clear by releasing the
>> command line dev tools:
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean by that, but looking at the history of Apple
> devices, especially the recent history with iPad, iPhone, etc... it's
> pretty clear to me where this is headed: keep as tight a control on the
> machine as possible without alienating too many users.

It means that Apple likes to accommodate devs who prefer a traditional Unix environment over using IDEs (such as Xcode) and devs that use alternative tool chains (such as GHC).

Manuel