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Created May 26, 2021 by Julian Ospald@maerwald🍵Developer

Advertise "latest" vs "recommended" GHC versions

The current download page lists the "Current Stable Release" of GHC: https://www.haskell.org/ghc/download.html

To my knowledge, "stable" here means it passed the GHC CI and is a proper release. However, for users, such a release may not work due to most of the ecosystem lagging behind, non-trivial bugs or the nature of a new major release that starts with x.y.0 or x.y.1.

Hence, both ghcup and stack have some notion of "recommended" vs "latest" wrt GHC versions. GHCup currently still considers 8.10.4 the recommended one.

I believe it is worthwhile if GHC upstream keeps track of ecosystem adoption and bugs and ultimately decides what is the "recommended" version, so we could have more consistency in tooling.

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