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TBH what I got out of this is that he’s got a simple solid setup that works for him. He clearly doesn’t burn time changing his setup often and that makes sense.
by xixixao 5y ago
TBH what I got out of this is that he’s got a simple solid setup that works for him. He clearly doesn’t burn time changing his setup often and that makes sense.
- reducesuffering 5y agoNix is hardly simple
- _hl_ 5y agoOn the face of it not, no. But when you consider the immense power and versatility of it (you can do anything from setting up simple virtual envs to automatically deploying a multi-container setup on AWS), it starts to become a lot simpler than the sum of all the other tools that it replaces. Nix is a single principled idea, but can be used in so many different contexts.
- v1g1l4nt3 5y agoFor me it's the fact that he's still coding, putting thought into dev tools and his dev setup (less is more in his case).