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Nix documentation is such a clusterfuck. You have to basically forage some kind of "most up2date understanding" of basic best practices from random ass blogpost
by oxff 4y ago
Nix documentation is such a clusterfuck. You have to basically forage some kind of "most up2date understanding" of basic best practices from random ass blogposts / digging into other people's configs. This is a major red flag.
- slightknack 4y agoIn my opinion, writing derivations in Guile Scheme, using Guix[0], is a breath of fresh air[1]. If only the ecosystem were as large as Nix's... [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Guix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Guix [1]: https://goto.isaac.sh/guix https://goto.isaac.sh/guix
- dizhn 4y agoThis is what I gathered too. Though I found people on Discord more helpful than the blog posts since things tend not to work as written in those posts anyway.
- baby 4y agoThe Nix developers should really really take a look at Cargo/Go and learn from developer-friendly tools. The fact that nix is hosted on nixos.org which seems to be completely unrelated to nix shows that they do not understand (yet) how to market their tool, and today every project/company is a media company. You need to learn how to sell your product, and how to improve the dev experience.