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You don't have to know how to write Nix to write 95% of all Nix, it's just "JSON with functions" after all. There are definitely advanced things that the Nix an
by lillecarl 3y ago
You don't have to know how to write Nix to write 95% of all Nix, it's just "JSON with functions" after all. There are definitely advanced things that the Nix and NixOS developers maintain for me.
Just like I don't know how to implement any crypto, or how to implement efficient 3D pathfinding I don't know how to implement NixOS. But I can write a derivation using the helper functions for the language I want to package, which aren't many these days since nixpkgs is huge already.