Hi, I'm a beginner when it comes to Haskell, but I guess I'm somewhat comfortable with the language itself. I'd love to try building some stuff using it. However, I'm finding it very hard to properly use external libraries/packages.
I'm familiar with Rust's cargo, and go's package management system, and feel very comfortable using them. Are there similar ones for Haskell? Basically, I want them defined per project, and not have to install everything system-wide. I'd like to be able to provide users with simple instructions for replicating the whole build setup.
What's the idiomatic way? Are there any example packages that I can look at that are not too complicated?
Cabal is more than sufficient for my purposes nowadays. I'd recommend reading their Getting Started page:
https://cabal.readthedocs.io/en/3.10/getting-started.html
That gives an overview of the basic functions and for example how to add new dependencies.
For setting up the entire toolchain, I'd also recommend GHCUp's first steps guide:
https://www.haskell.org/ghcup/steps/