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> The feeling of powerlessness one has when Cabal does not do what one wanted and one does not know how to fix it.

> The feeling of powerlessness one has when Cabal does not do what one wanted and one does not know how to fix it. I experienced this immediately after I read Learn You A Haskell and it made me give up on the language. I develop on Windows (currently?) and I was passionate about creating my first hobby project in Haskell. But every direction I turned, I ran into an issue where a dependency or transitive dependency expected some linux library to be there and I couldn't install. Maybe I'm just spoiled and need to be more open minded. I come from Java-land where I take "write once run anywhere" for granted. I eventually switched to Clojure but that was unsatisfying for different reasons. I wish there was a language with Haskell's purity and type system but Java's ability to "write once and run anywhere". I think Frege is very close, but I feel uncomfortable learning something with such a small community (damn... I am spoiled).

Posted by tieTYT on Sep 30, 2014, 5:20 PM

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> The feeling of powerlessness one has when Cabal does not do what one wanted and one does not know how to fix it.

tieTYTSep 30, 2014, 5:20 PM

> The feeling of powerlessness one has when Cabal does not do what one wanted and one does not know how to fix it. I experienced this immediately after I read Learn You A Haskell and it made me give up on the language. I develop on Windows (currently?) and I was passionate about creating my first hobby project in Haskell. But every direction I turned, I ran into an issue where a dependency or transitive dependency expected some linux library to be there and I couldn't install. Maybe I'm just spoiled and need to be more open minded. I come from Java-land where I take "write once run anywhere" for granted. I eventually switched to Clojure but that was unsatisfying for different reasons. I wish there was a language with Haskell's purity and type system but Java's ability to "write once and run anywhere". I think Frege is very close, but I feel uncomfortable learning something with such a small community (damn... I am spoiled).

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