Not completely down; as a signed in user I didn't notice a thing.
I made it on there with my revival of Real World Haskell :D
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:
They are considered volunteers in the Netherlands as long as the compensation is way below market rates. I don't understand why you think this is a problem.
In the Netherlands, volunteers can be paid up to €5.60 per hour and up to €2100 per year (tax-free).
Not only is it convenient, it also enables parallelism:
"How to Think about Parallel Programming: Not!" - Guy L. Steele Jr. (Strange Loop 2010)
I'm confused. It does go straight to the discourse post when I click it.
You can choose a custom donation and make most of your money go to the EFF. Then the top tier is just like a €24 donation to the EFF and you only really "pay" €10.30 for the actual books.
Een belangrijke overweging van mij is dat de partij groot genoeg is om echt het verschil te maken. Daarom ben ik recent lid geworden van Groenlinks. Ik denk dat Groenlinks-PvdA de enige fractie is die groot genoeg en ook duidelijk pro-europa is.
That's is how things used to work here in the Netherlands, until the EU forced us to change our laws in 2014:
Why? They immediately explain that the difference in performance would not be significant on such a small problem and I see no other reason to prefer arrays over maps.
I when I read reports of the downtime on mastodon I checked status.codeberg.org and saw that almost everything was a red line, except for the authenticated traffic. I guess I was lucky that I still had my cookies.