These sort of umbrella resources help create a sense of cohesiveness in the community, making it more welcoming to newcomers. #Haskell is more popular, but it could still learn from how much #PureScript's community efforts have achieved in the past 2-3 years.
@haskman I don’t get it… For packages we have Hackage (and Flora.pm). For short links(?). Why have a centralized repo of that?
@dpwiz @haskman as I said, this is stackage. (See haskman's argument about curation). If you squat, you get kicked.
But yeah, #haskell needed #stackage because of #cabalHell, whereas #purescript has both #nix integration and #dhall / #spago combo wombo, which is a less known "nix for language ecosystems".
But if this website (which I didn't understand beyond "I am certain I don't need this") provides `go get`-like experience, then it will be very good for beginners.
@dpwiz I didn't understand what it is, I don't know what's the intended use of it anymore, but I stopped caring by now 🙂
@jonn @dpwiz Well it's not like stackage at all. Stackage is a curated set of package sets that compile together. This is a vanity link shortener tailored and free for the purescript community. They are completely different things. In particular this has *absolutely nothing* to do with solving package dependency hell.
@dpwiz @jonn I don't know how someone can "squat" over a curated set of urls.
In any case, this is one of those subtle things that you either see the utility of or you don't, so I wouldn't worry if it does not seem useful, it probably just means you are not the target audience.