The Haskell community is being split [New haskell-lang.org]

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by yokohummer7 • 10 years ago

8 4 10 years ago

I don't know much about this drama, but here's my perception from the outside.

There has been a long-standing fight between the Haskell.org committee and the developers of Stack, regarding what should be the "default" option to install Haskell to be displayed on the homepage. Many Haskellers think Stack is a strictly better tool, but the Haskell.org committee thinks that the Haskell Platform is still worth mentioning on the homepage. The Stack team could not convince the committee for months.

In the end, the Stack team decided to create a new Haskell community, haskell-lang.org. One of the Stack developers who had contributed to the original haskell.org even said "I don't approve of the current haskell.org, nor your use of my design".[1] It seems that they are trying to replace the Haskell community in the same way how Stack replaced Cabal. This also includes a GitHub organization, an IRC channel, and even a subreddit (/r/haskell_lang).

[1] https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-community/2016-Ap...

greenyoda• 10 years ago

"In the end, the Stack team decided to create a new Haskell community, haskell-lang.org."

Sounds like they're creating a new web site. Whether that leads to the creation of a viable new community depends on how many Haskell users can be convinced to embrace the new web site.

orionblastar• 10 years ago

Yeah this is something that has divided the Haskell community. I am still learning Haskell and not sure which tool to use.

Sort of like C++ there are different tools to use for it as well. It comes down to having a standard both tools use to make sure that code compiles the same on both of them.

baisong• 10 years ago

haskell-lang.org is redirecting to haskell.org

The Haskell community is being split [New haskell-lang.org]

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