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For me, the problem isn't so much with the nix language(it's very similar to haskell), but the lack of discoverability for docs of library. The manual is mostly

by xfer 8y ago

For me, the problem isn't so much with the nix language(it's very similar to haskell), but the lack of discoverability for docs of library. The manual is mostly incomplete and i often have to look at sources. My most favourite thing is that i can just override the packages to compile and install a new version/extra configure flags of a package that's not yet upstream.

rufugee 8y ago
Interesting... I've found the manuals to be ok so far. Can you share what you've had problems finding?
- xfer 8y ago
  Well, a lot of common functions like fetch* , write*, makeWrapper that are used in packages are undocumented. I usually dig into source files using nix repl to find the location.