GHCup vs juliaup
GHCup
haskell.orgjuliaup
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| Figure | GHCup | juliaup |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 1 | 0 |
| Spec score · Runtime Version Managers | 8.6 (#1) | 7.1 (#25) |
| Spec score · Development Environment Managers | 8.5 (#7) | 7.1 (#44) |
| Platforms | The supported platforms list includes Windows, macOS, FreeBSD, Linux, and Windows WSL2; support varies by tool and architecture. | Official installers are provided for Windows, Mac, Linux, and FreeBSD. |
| Purpose | GHCup is the main installer for the general purpose language Haskell. | Juliaup is a cross-platform installer and version manager for the Julia programming language. |
| Version management | GHCup provides installation and management for versions of GHC, cabal, HLS, and Stack. | Juliaup can install specific Julia versions, notify users of new releases, and manage release channels such as stable, LTS, beta, and nightly. |
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In their own words
GHCup
GHCup is a free, open-source installer and version manager for the Haskell toolchain. It installs and manages GHC, cabal-install, Haskell Language Server (HLS), and Stack versions; Stack can also be configured to use GHC versions managed by GHCup. Listed functionality includes a terminal user interface and GHC cross-compilation. Installation guidance covers terminal commands for Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, and WSL2, alongside PowerShell instructions for Windows. The project describes Windows support as being in an early stage and uses a shim wrapper because Windows does not properly support symbolic links. On macOS, GHCup may prompt for command line tools; Windows setup includes msys2. The installer should be run as a non-root user on Unix-like systems and a non-admin user on Windows. GHCup relies on precompiled binaries, so compatibility can depend on the distribution and libraries such as libtinfo. WSL1 and macOS versions earlier than 10.13 are unsupported. Some ARM binaries are experimental: Stack and HLS on Linux ARM, and HLS bindists on macOS aarch64. Configuration can be stored in ~/.ghcup/config.yaml, with command-line options taking precedence.