Explore moving from pretty to prettyprinter
GHC has for a long time used the pretty
library for pretty-printing. However, for a number of reasons (explained in https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/wikis/pretty-errors) it leaves some things to be desired. The prettyprinter
library is a performant, well-supported alternative that looks quite promising. Explore moving to prettyprinter
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