Any recommendations on which new prelude to use? I'm fairly competent with Haskell but have never looked into these and am feeling decision paralysis -- too many choices.
The worst thing about the default Prelude is that it encourages bad behavior among new users--for instance, with partial functions like `head`. Experienced people know what to avoid and what to work around. So if picking an alternative Prelude seems like too much work, it is.
I have a project where I have mostly dumped the Prelude. All it is doing is saving me a bunch of imports. That's nice but not earth-shaking.
* "id" renamed to "identity" so you can use id in your own code
* panic functions like "notImplemented"
* a generic string converter "toS"
* lots more
But to be fair most modern preludes work OK.
Foundation is a bit different in that it doesn't ship a huge amount yet but has the potential to eventually replace the core prelude with saner default types like utf8-encoded strings. If you need to ship to production yesterday I would not use Foundation just yet.