Cabal

Definitions

1. The build system and package manager for Haskell, responsible for dependency resolution, compilation, and publishing packages to Hackage — often used alongside (or replaced by) Stack.

   In plain English: Haskell's tool for downloading libraries, compiling code, and managing project dependencies — like npm but for Haskell.

   Example: "Run cabal build to compile, and cabal test to execute the test suite against the resolved dependency set."

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