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> Granted, the tooling is sh*t.

I hear this a lot, but am curious about two things: (a) which bit(s) of the toolchain are you thinking about specifically -- I know HLS can be quite janky but I haven't really been blocked by any tooling problems myself; (b) have you done much Haskell in production recently -- i.e. is this scar tissue from some ago or have you tried the toolchain recently and still found it to be lacking?

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Everytime I use cabal and/or stack, it gives me a wall of errors and i just reinstall everyrhing all the time.

If you share a transcript from a cabal session I'll look into this for you.

And if you share stack transcripts I’ll look into those for you.

I’ve experienced this too, the tools can certainly be improved, but also a little more understanding of what they do and how to interpret their error messages could help you (I am guessing).

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