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> If you increase user friendliness of the app with a GUI or easily understood commands not only will more regular people start using it, but MORE developers wi
by pxc 4y ago
> If you increase user friendliness of the app with a GUI or easily understood commands not only will more regular people start using it, but MORE developers will start using it too.
Making a GUI for generating Nix config is a complex task (and maybe not a better approach than providing a highly discoverable, user-frindly IDE experience, like DrRacket or something), so nothing like that is complete yet. But there are efforts along those lines that are still actively being worked on.
NixOS has also recently seen the addition of a graphical installer, for reasons like you describe. It's nice to see that kind of progress.
- IshKebab 4y agoDoesn't the fact that it's pure and functional make it easier to do a GUI for? I dunno, I'm one of the people that loves the idea of Nice but was put off by the complexity and beginner unfriendliness. IDE support (code intelligence etc.) is always good though.