Comment by ddellacosta

I don't really get this take, at least wrt Haskell--I know less about the others. I don't disagree that it's not ideal, but I still would compare the combination of nix+cabal in Haskell favorably with anything I've used in Python, JS, Ruby, Clojure...and other ecosystems I'm forgetting. Python and JS in particular I've always found absolutely miserable to work with when it comes to dealing with dependencies. So I don't believe that this is why folks aren't choosing Haskell (I think it has a lot more to do with how different it is from most people's programming language experience, and how so much of the documentation is aimed at non-beginners).