haskell-platform VS Hasklig

The original link http://www.haskell.org/platform/ does redirect to the downloads page, but http://www.haskell.org/platform (without the slash) doesn't. Still, I think it's probably better to make it explicit to visitors that the Platform is deprecated in favour of the Downloads page: https://github.com/haskell-infra/www.haskell.org/pull/167

The link for the official page (http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/) gives you a 404 error and every other link (including those on the official Haskell Platform Github https://github.com/haskell/haskell-platform) leads you to the generic downloads page on the official website which has absolutely no hint about Haskell Platform.

If you plan to try some of the examples, I would highly recommend setting up Haskell locally on your machine. You can follow this guide to download and set up ghc and ghci, we will use ghci for all examples.

Why does the haskell platform (https://www.haskell.org/platform/ ) require it in order to install the IDE?

As for GHC, check out this page for step-by-step explanations of installation. Personally I think it's much easier to set this up on linux compared to windows. I use Ubuntu WSL2 on Windows, this avoids a lot of the trouble.

Is it about the time to redirect the "Download Haskell" link in the right sidebar here from https://www.haskell.org/platform/ to https://www.haskell.org/downloads/?

If you save the sliced model as x3g (default for FFCP) and you get an empty file, follow the steps described in this issue to install the required libraries: https://github.com/haskell/haskell-platform/issues/231#issuecomment-177530716

Hasklig because it includes ligatures useful for programming (although mainly focused on functional programming) & is visually pleasent. https://github.com/i-tu/Hasklig

Its 10000000% the font. I just tested Hasklig's regular font (this) and all of the boxes and question marks dissapear. Theres just one problems with this font. The text is weird af (pics below). It seems to like to smash characters together sometimes and others its cutting parts of them off.

Change to Hasklig font (https://github.com/i-tu/Hasklig)

I like to change it up, but I like Ubuntu Mono and right now I've been using Hasklig

In case anyone is wondering, I use Nord theme and Hasklig font with font ligatures on.

self: super: { hasklig = self.callPackage ({ lib, fetchzip }: let version = "1.2"; in fetchzip { name = "hasklig-${version}"; url = "https://github.com/i-tu/Hasklig/releases/download/v${version}/Hasklig-${version}.zip"; postFetch = '' unzip $downloadedFile install -m444 -Dt $out/share/fonts/opentype OTF/*.otf ''; sha256 = "sha256-8lY1m0P1qQIbR4e7kX68jVoKZmEfPWNwK3AFLoaBEak="; meta = with lib; { homepage = "https://github.com/i-tu/Hasklig"; description = "A font with ligatures for Haskell code based off Source Code Pro"; license = licenses.ofl; platforms = platforms.all; maintainers = with maintainers; [ davidrusu Profpatsch ]; }; }) {}; }

I keep wondering if I should try out a font with ligatures (probably Fira Code or Hasklig), but I haven't yet. Does anyone here use a ligature font with Raku? I'm not sure if the ligatures would fit right in with the Unicode glyphs or get confusing.