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I spent about an hour looking into putting Nix on my work MacBook but the installation seemed too complicated and I couldn't find any official documentation. I
by c7DJTLrn 5y ago
I spent about an hour looking into putting Nix on my work MacBook but the installation seemed too complicated and I couldn't find any official documentation. I frankly just don't want to have to create a volume, that's a pain in the ass.
A colleague who tried Nix also informed me that he was coming across outdated packages like Terraform. Brew's packages are updated fairly often.
- takeda 5y agoI don't think that's true, at least about terraform. I see[1] version 1.0.2 updated 8 days ago (same day it was released). The installation[2] is also not that complicated. The documentation also seems to be easily to be found on the project's site[3]. Nix has its issues, like steep learning curve due to the language being functional and lazily evaluated, but it doesn't look like you even got to that point. If these things were causing you difficulties, perhaps you dodged a bullet. [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/af65c312fb1b7dd93a78810af7f6e6b990dad088/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/terraform/default.nix#L196-L202 https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/af65c312fb1b7dd93a7881... [2] https://nixos.org/download.html#nix-quick-install https://nixos.org/download.html#nix-quick-install [3] https://nixos.org/learn.html https://nixos.org/learn.html