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Great, but you're making the OP's point: > the Nix language is just so damn weird... Why didn't they use a [familiar] syntax ... You wouldn't have to parse da
by carapace 7y ago
Great, but you're making the OP's point:
> the Nix language is just so damn weird... Why didn't they use a [familiar] syntax ...
You wouldn't have to parse data from some other representation if Nix lang was less weird, eh?
- eeh 7y agoI agree with OP's first point that Nix language being new may hurt its success. I was replying to OP's second point about Nix language not being machine-editable. Even if Nix was written in Python rather than Nix language, it still wouldn't be machine editable. The solution in both cases is to use a simple format that is machine editable, e.g. JSON.