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I read this a lot and it prevented me from trying nix many years ago, instead I looked to guix and guile. Turns out, I don’t like schemes all that much. Starte
by ghthor 3y ago
I read this a lot and it prevented me from trying nix many years ago, instead I looked to guix and guile. Turns out, I don’t like schemes all that much.
Started using nix this year, language is easy to use. Has very few concepts and syntax, it’s a standard functional language with all those goodies and a clean syntax in my opinion.
- __MatrixMan__ 3y agoI agree. I think the language gets blamed when it's a docs problem, and the docs get blamed because nix scratches the itch for so many different sorts of people. If you're a dev trying to replace poetry you're in a different world than a sysadmin trying to replace ansible, but documenting nix means addressing the needs of both parties. That's hard. The language is fine, especially compared with its alternatives (e.g. templated yaml, yuck).