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Honestly, it really is not the language that’s the problem. While there are a few cases where it can trip you up at first, you wouldn’t be singing package descr

by kaba0 4y ago

Honestly, it really is not the language that’s the problem. While there are a few cases where it can trip you up at first, you wouldn’t be singing package descriptors even if it were Python — it simply has a business domain which is non-trivial. This non-triviality and organic growth show on the standard library of nix packages, but I fail to see how a lisp language or whatever be immune to it, besides having learned from some early abstractions mistakes.

zamalek 4y ago
Nix is building a package manager AND a programming language. Guix is building a package manager only. It's a resourcing thing.
- kaba0 4y ago
  And one might even argue the opposite, a DSL made for creating packages may well be better. Especially that plenty of package descriptions are basically reads like JSON.
  - zamalek 4y ago
    Fair enough, that's a really good point.