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> they haven't been able to focus on the UX. I also feel like folks for whom Haskell is comfortable may not realize just how absurd it feels to everyone else.
by rgoulter 4y ago
> they haven't been able to focus on the UX. I also feel like folks for whom Haskell is comfortable may not realize just how absurd it feels to everyone else.
The majority of communication I've seen from Nix maintainers over the last few months has been about exactly this.
The submitted post is about exactly that while Nix powerful, they want more people to be able to use it without having to pay a steep penalty to learn it.
- tinco 4y agoIt also doesn't have anything to do with Haskell or it looking somewhat like Haskell. I'm very comfortable in Haskell, and Nix looks awful to me. It's not that it's functional or it's declarative, it's that it's badly designed and not intuitive, making it hard to remember and therefore awkward to code in.
- kaba0 4y agoI think the only hard part is not Nix, but Nixpkgs’s not well-documented/not-stable APIs. It would be a problem in any language.