New users come across, old, outdated, obsolete packages, struggle to use them, and come away with a bad impression of Haskell. We need to make sure that old, outdated, obsolete packages, are clearly marked as such, and that they point to well-supported replacements.
... I tried to use sockets. After a few days, I discovered sockets were both broken and deprecated.
... Haskell needs to replace the standard prelude and burn the old documentation.
... the simplest of tasks in Haskell immediately put up roadblocks.
Similar problem to https://github.com/tomjaguarpaw/tilapia/issues/7
New users come across, old, outdated, obsolete packages, struggle to use them, and come away with a bad impression of Haskell. We need to make sure that old, outdated, obsolete packages, are clearly marked as such, and that they point to well-supported replacements.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23622161