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Or, as all of us declarative junkies will admit, just nixos it up and forget about imperative tedium Seriously :)
by eointierney 4y ago
Or, as all of us declarative junkies will admit, just nixos it up and forget about imperative tedium
Seriously :)
- kennywinker 4y agoIsn’t that a different problem? Like containerization is useful for dependency + config management, which I understand nixos is good for, but containers are also useful for “spin up a web server (with X configuration) and spin up a db server (with B configuration) at the SAME time on my local machine (configuration Z)”
- rtpg 4y agoWell for example you could set up your nix derivation for a thing and run it on more or less any OS, without needing to also ship Ubuntu or whatever base layer of your Docker image.
- smoochy 4y agoFun story. I gave Nix a try - my standard 2 weeks - and realized it's not solving my problems, while creating a set of different ones. Ironically, `dock` was conceived while I was experimenting with Nix. But Nix... and Docker, in part... They are manifestations of this need for certainty we humans have, it doesn't lead us to good places :)
- ParetoOptimal 4y agoI don't quite understand, can you elaborate? I'm a nix user who'd like to see others be able to get as much value out of it as I do.
- smoochy 4y agoI wrote about it here, search for "NixOS" on the page https://orion3.space/articles/2weeks.html https://orion3.space/articles/2weeks.html