Stack hello world

Stack is famous for Haskell package manager. As a web developer I am used to clear tutorial that I can understand and learn. Let’s make a sample app.

Installing Stack

Install on OSX through homebrew

$ brew update
$ brew install haskell-stack

Creating a new app

$ stack new hello-world

Stack has some templates you can use your app.

Installing GHC

Run this in your app.

$ stack setup

Building an Executable

You can build with stack build

$ stack build

Run the app

Runt the app. This is cool.

$ stack exec hello-world-exe
SomeFunc