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https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Overview_of_the_Nix_Language https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Overview_of_the_Nix_Language > The Nix language is designed for convenient

https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Overview_of_the_Nix_Language https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Overview_of_the_Nix_Language > The Nix language is designed for conveniently creating and composing derivations – precise descriptions of how contents of existing files are used to derive new files. I’m getting Wikipedia math vibes.

lenerdenator 3y ago
Reminds me of the Haskell entry on the Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages [0]. "1990 - A committee formed by Simon Peyton-Jones, Paul Hudak, Philip Wadler, Ashton Kutcher, and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals creates Haskell, a pure, non-strict, functional language. Haskell gets some resistance due to the complexity of using monads to control side effects. Wadler tries to appease critics by explaining that "a monad is a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what's the problem?"" Math people: "What if we made software code more like mathematical proofs?" Idk. What if you had dated before age 38? [0] http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong.html http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-m...
yencabulator 3y ago
You've only scratched the surface. > pkgs.mkShell is a specialized stdenv.mkDerivation that removes some repetition when using it with nix-shell (or nix develop). https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/#sec-pkgs-mkShell https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/#sec-pkgs-mkShell