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Nix feels to me like a cool but somewhat hacky v1 of a really great idea. I'm hoping someone creates a much more elegant successor. If Nix is CVS or even Subve
by staunch 4y ago
Nix feels to me like a cool but somewhat hacky v1 of a really great idea. I'm hoping someone creates a much more elegant successor.
If Nix is CVS or even Subversion, I'm hoping for Git.
- thomastjeffery 4y agoThe neat thing about the functional design of Nix is that you don't have to reinvent the wheel: just make better steering. Everything about Nix can be trivially refactored. Every part is neatly isolated from the rest.
- pxc 4y ago> Everything about Nix can be trivially refactored. Every part is neatly isolated from the rest. Tweaking a few NixOS modules it replacing a package is easy, but neither the Nix codebase nor Nixpkgs is characterized by perfect modularity or uniform layering.
- JamesSwift 4y agoWhat? Have you used the old nix cli? It absolutely dominates Git in the frequency of "how do I do that again?" /s
- chriswarbo 4y agoMaybe take a look at Guix? (I don't use it, but it sounds like what you describe)