In that same thread that you've linked, other people have later replied arguing for why they prefer Stack so... I don't really think that you've given an argument that is persuasive enough to someone who is new to Haskell.
(And I'm not even that new to Haskell. It's just that I don't use it every day and when I come back to it and have to remember the weird incantations and dances I have to perform to make HLS not crash or want to overwrite my stack-installed Haskell version, I'm usually rather annoyed.)
> In that same thread that you've linked, other people have later replied arguing for why they prefer Stack so...
I merely stated that I have no trouble running old projects using stack.
> I don't really think that you've given an argument that is persuasive enough to someone who is new to Haskell.
Honestly, cabal improved a lot since the old ages. For a beginner, either stack or cabal should be very fine imo.
> or want to overwrite my stack-installed Haskell version, I'm usually rather annoyed.
Not sure why you would want to do that. Either you use stack and let it handle your ghc install, or you don't, and I really don't see why you would use stack only for compiler install.
> I merely stated that I have no trouble running old projects using stack.
I was referring to the linked forum thread.
> Not sure why you would want to do that. Either you use stack and let it handle your ghc install, or you don't, and I really don't see why you would use stack only for compiler install.
What I mean is that when I start VS Code on my Haskell project again after a couple months, it tells me that it needs to donwload a new version of GHC. And I don't know why since I didn't change anything about my project. And when I try to click on update, it fails and the HLS extension crashes. I can't tell you where exactly this goes wrong, but it's obvious that these tools don't all work well together.
edit: Now I see that my wording was confusing. You quoted me as saying that I want HLS to overwrite my GHC version, but what I meant was that I want to prevent HLS (actually, I should have said the VS Code Haskell plugin) from doing that. The subject of "want" in that sentence you quoted is "HLS".
(And I'm not even that new to Haskell. It's just that I don't use it every day and when I come back to it and have to remember the weird incantations and dances I have to perform to make HLS not crash or want to overwrite my stack-installed Haskell version, I'm usually rather annoyed.)