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> The documentation of Nix and NixOS is rather poor. To understand how a service or an option works, it is very often necessary to read the source code (`.nix’

> The documentation of Nix and NixOS is rather poor. To understand how a service or an option works, it is very often necessary to read the source code (`.nix’ files) ... I think this is also a plus point, for Guix and Nix, how easy you can check the parent file dependencies, which are the same language as the configuration you're creating, and are easy to understand

YoshiRulz 4y ago
Except in Nixpkgs, where it's tedious to go from the package's expression (easy enough to find from NixOS Search) to where it's called in `all-packages.nix` or to the various helpers exposed in `lib`. But there are multiple efforts to make jumping to declarations easier in the new CLI and even to rearchitect Nixpkgs.