Moving away from String

[JacquesCarette]

Within the Haskell community, it is well-known that String is a really awful type, and it should be avoided. Unfortunately the Drasil prototype start out with String in its foundations, and now it's going to be a lot of work to fix it all.

But there is hope. We do have some isolated interfaces between packages, and we could migrate things. One things that should help a lot is a new package TTC (Textual TypeClasses) which is now on Hackage, and also comes with lots of explanations.

It's a little premature to jump right now, as discussions about the package will probably lead to some tweaks to it, but it's definitely something worth keeping an eye on.

[balacij]

Out of curiosity, do you know if anything has changed w.r.t. TTC? I've seen some use of Data.Text since it comes with base.

[JacquesCarette]

I don't know if anything has changed. It might be worth asking, somewhere Haskell-focused on social media, what are the recommended replacement(s) for String.