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> the whole nix internals are just a black box to you. Yes, and just as well. Modern software is a barely-holding-together tower of abstractions as it is. Do
by cmm 3y ago
> the whole nix internals are just a black box to you.
Yes, and just as well. Modern software is a barely-holding-together tower of abstractions as it is. Do you find yourself looking at the C source of Guile's runtime often? Or Glibc? The Linux kernel? Intel microcode? Aren't you glad you don't have to?
(Nixpkgs, on the other hand, is very accessible and many parts of it make for great reading)
> if you expect of me to promote the virtues of lisp to you then im sorry but thats not gonna happen.
No, I hope (in vain, looks like) that you'll start making some sense and stop using and then desperately defending stupid arguments.
- medo-bear 3y agolol so now you think that looking at nix internals is like looking at intel microde. my hat goes off to you :)
- cmm 3y agoLooking at Nix internals would, over at the Guix land, be more like looking at the Guile compiler, or garbage collector -- all Nix-the-tool implements is the language and the primitive derivation machinery. Could certainly be educational, but neither is nor should be required of anyone _using_ the abstraction in question. Do you have any more deliberate obtuseness to share, or shall we stop?
- medo-bear 3y ago> Looking at Nix internals would, over at the Guix land, be more like looking at the Guile compiler, or garbage collector huh? nope. looking at guix internals would just mean looking up guile documentation :)