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Nix is fully declarative (with flakes), supports complex logic, and is more powerful that chef and puppet. It is a bit more difficult to learn for those reasons
by colordrops 4y ago
Nix is fully declarative (with flakes), supports complex logic, and is more powerful that chef and puppet. It is a bit more difficult to learn for those reasons as well.
- 1attice 4y ago+1. YAML is a terrible foundation for a declarative config. You need a language designed for declarative config. Some commenter above said that this space is too messy for a purely declarative language; someone else said Pulumi should be thought of as a macro language to generate a declarative spec. Instead of bolting on a whole Python interpreter to work as a macro language to generate a theoretical declarative spec, why not instead just write a declarative spec in a sanely declarative language? It's not that hard to learn Nix. Stop procrastinating, everyone, and go learn Nix :)
- pydry 4y agoYAML is designed for declarative config.
- 1attice 4y agoGiven that it has none of the features that make Nix bearable, and (if my long memory serves) has repeatedly been busted for truck-sized security holes, and, on top of that, has a grammar that makes me long for that old gif of a hexadecimal keypad, because at least hexadecimal is clear, I'd say it failed, badly.