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Lots and lots, yes, but only really in strongly- statically-typed languages; I have hated Nixlang since the moment I first set eyes on it.
by Smaug123 3y ago
Lots and lots, yes, but only really in strongly- statically-typed languages; I have hated Nixlang since the moment I first set eyes on it.
- pxc 3y agoThat fits with my hypothesis, which is that programmers tend to find that the way Nix flakes lay out a common interface and convention for certain things helpful, but people who are more IT-oriented and are used to relatively incapable conflangs are overwhelmed by the surface level verbosity of flakes, and hesitant to use libraries to deal with it because they take a bit longer getting their heads around the language. FWIW I like Nixlang, but I agree that static typing would improve it. Maybe Nickel some day, blah blah blah :)