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>I really wish this was written in something even like Haskell or Ocaml, that has actual real language support and tooling. Troubleshooting attribute errors was
by carlmr 5y ago
>I really wish this was written in something even like Haskell or Ocaml, that has actual real language support and tooling. Troubleshooting attribute errors was just not possible and I gave up (GUIX looks awesome, but I can't really use shepherd unfortunately).
The 3 times I've tried to use Nix (and invariably gave up), I always came to this conclusion.
A language like F#/OCaml with great typing and type inference and good auto completion could get us half the way to usability.
- Smaug123 5y agoNickel Is Coming! https://github.com/tweag/nickel https://github.com/tweag/nickel, e.g. https://github.com/tweag/nickel/blob/master/examples/polymorphism/polymorphism.ncl https://github.com/tweag/nickel/blob/master/examples/polymor... . Looks really exciting to me!
- zeec123 5y agoHave a look at PureNix: https://functor.tokyo/blog/2022-01-03-purenix https://functor.tokyo/blog/2022-01-03-purenix