[Haskell-cafe] Cabal or stack in 2021 ?

[Alexis Praga]

Hi,

As an intermediate beginner, I've been back into Haskell for the last
months for a small project, using stack as the building tool.

Why stack ? A few years back, I learned that it was the "best" way to build
projects to avoid "cabal hell", which I understood at the time as
"managing dependencies with cabal is hard".

As such, I've use stack since and have been quite happy with it. The
only drawback is that building a project can be quite long.

This is usually not a problem, except for writing Haskell scripts using
shelly (for example), where the stack layout is a bit impractical for
fast-paced development. A solution is to use `runghc` or a script
interpreter [1].

However, I've seen some projects where cabal is used to build directly
instead of cabal, so it looks like the situation improved.

My question is this: in 2021, is there a reason to switch back to cabal ?

Thanks,

[1] https://www.fpcomplete.com/haskell/tutorial/stack-script/


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   Alexis Praga
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