haskell-platform VS www.haskell.org

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

Haskell - a general-purpose functional language with many unique properties (purely functional, lazy, expressive types, STM, etc). You mentioned you dabbled in Haskell, why not try it again? (I've written about 7 things I learned from Haskell, and my book is linked at them bottom if you're interested :) )

Where you go is entirely up to you. According to haskell.org, Haskell jobs are a-plenty. sigh

✨ Supported by http://haskell.org

Btw here is the repo I am talking about: https://github.com/haskell-infra/www.haskell.org .

I just jumped into the wiki "Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 hours" which looks pretty good. (although some of the text explanation is hard to understand without context).. I used cabal to set up the starter project. Sublime editor seems to work OK and I just use the git Bash shell on windows to compile the program directly on the command line. So maybe this is all good enough for now (?). It seems installing it from haskell.org with ghcup was more straight forward than I thought.

We made or are making some (small for now) contributions to projects like Cabal and haskell.org, and we hope to ramp it up as time goes.

Maths 2 exists qnd it's called Haskell

Yeah, definitely. We're working on adding a guide[1] like that to haskell.org as we speak :)

If you have a chance, you could look over the PR and tell me whether this is roughly what you're thinking of.

[1]: https://github.com/haskell-infra/www.haskell.org/pull/214

p.s. I am also working on a PR for haskell.org that would hopefully make the webpage a bit more friendly for newcomers, also focused on clearly outlining the journey to get started with Haskell easily. It is not as opinionated as this blog post, but it still tried to make things a bit more straightforward: https://github.com/Martinsos/www.haskell.org/compare/master...Martinsos:www.haskell.org:getting-started .

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