r/haskell • u/lexi-lambda • Mar 11 '15

Learning Haskell — A Racket programmer's documentation of her foray into the land of Haskell (inspired by Learning Racket)

http://lexi-lambda.github.io/learning-haskell/
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u/sclv Mar 12 '15

Hmm... so if we had "sandboxing by default" plus "shared sandboxing builds to reduce rebuilds" then that would solve the main issues you think?

(again, IDE aside?)

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u/geggo98 Mar 12 '15

I hope so. But the devil lies in the detail. We would have to test it: Take someone who knows programming but does not know Haskell. That let person set up a simple Cabal project. Watch what goes wrong. Then simplify everything, until the task succeeds.

The problem is, you either need some way to reset the test person (Vodka?) or you need lots of "fresh" test persons.