What Would You See Changed in Haskell?

We received 553 answers to the question “If you could change one thing about Haskell, what would it be?”. This is the breakdown.

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I think the reinstallable base work (and the base vs ghc-internal split) unlocks a third option for Data.Text APIs in base: base depends on text

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Are you suggesting that text would depend on ghc-internal? You’re gonna have a hard time to convince maintainers of that.

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Oops, I definitely wasn’t thinking clearly when I wrote that message this morning.
Sorry, you’re right! text depends on base :person_facepalming:

This is amazing! Thanks for the work you put into collating 500+ responses @Kleidukos !

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It was a team effort, I couldn’t have done it without Sawa (who doesn’t have an account here, alas)

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