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I have more than 20 years of Unix experience and was getting into DevOps and CI/CD in the recent years with GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, AWS etc. I literally d
by ontouchstart 4y ago
I have more than 20 years of Unix experience and was getting into DevOps and CI/CD in the recent years with GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, AWS etc. I literally discovered Nix yesterday via Andrew Kelley’s Zig demo on YouTube. I had the similar feeling as I first learned Unix tool chains two decades ago.
I believe live demo and CI/CD pipeline might be some of the best use cases to get people interested in Determinate Systems. Don’t get distracted by language features and syntactic sugars. If it works, people will learn.
- JustLurking2022 4y agoI've worked with large scale monorepos in FAANG - as a rule, they all suck. Eventually you always end up in this place where you have to understand, and be prepared to debug the entire universe just to build hello world.
- ontouchstart 4y agoTotally agree. For complicated system, this essential complexity won't go away no matter how you make the UX "friendly". But good tooling will help users grow to understand the challenge of the problems as well as to appreciate the power of the solution. For people who are really interested in the solution, they will eventually dive deeper: https://edolstra.github.io/pubs/phd-thesis.pdf https://edolstra.github.io/pubs/phd-thesis.pdf
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