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For me, Nix is one of those systems where I just had to spend a long time with it to understand it. It wasn't something I could master within a few weeks. After
by smasher164 5y ago
For me, Nix is one of those systems where I just had to spend a long time with it to understand it. It wasn't something I could master within a few weeks. After about a year of continued use and struggle, I've finally gotten to the point that I'm comfortable going off the beaten path and even contributing to nixpkgs.
- bpye 5y agoYeah I agree here, I used to find Nix somewhat unintuitive but I have now managed a few non-trivial projects. One being to package Xilinx ISE as a flake [0], and another to build an immutable Linux image using busybox and runit [1]. For the latter I still haven't quite gotten where I want but that's because I realised I needed dbus for avahi and dbus is just so ridiculously complex. [0] - https://github.com/benpye/nix-fpga-tools/ https://github.com/benpye/nix-fpga-tools/ [1] - https://github.com/benpye/nix-embedded https://github.com/benpye/nix-embedded