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you’re right. I guess I should qualify that with: what makes the language more difficult to approach as a newcomer. once you’re in there, there’s a ton of wart
by n42 5y ago
you’re right. I guess I should qualify that with: what makes the language more difficult to approach as a newcomer.
once you’re in there, there’s a ton of warts, of course. I just hear complaints about the syntax so much that it really seems like people are more caught up learning functional programming than Nix. which makes sense, since most people who would need Nix spend their time writing Bash and Python
- dwohnitmok 5y agoI think the problem is that the bad error messages make it unclear whether something is a syntax issue or a nixpkgs issue (this is somewhat worse with the dynamic nature of Nix, although I personally don't actually think Nix really needs static typing all that much, but that would be one viable way of fixing this).