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wow, they've re-invented a tiny bit of Nix, purely legend!

smallmancontrov 2y ago
A few months ago I saw someone hacking the linker to get mundane package management working in Nix. It was bubbling up to the top of my "to try" list and that bumped it back down. It'll be good eventually, I'm sure.
- instig007 2y ago
  > It'll be good eventually, I'm sure. not with this attitude of getting scared of things by watching someone doing something, for sure
  - smallmancontrov 2y ago
    I have fixed enough (dynamic) linker issues for this lifetime and probably several more. I think I'll let the kids take these. Godspeed.
lucsky 2y ago
That you can use without having 4 PhDs. It's pretty good. You should try it sometime when your done fully ingesting algebraic topology theory or whatever the fuck Nix requires to know just to install figlet.
- 331c8c71 2y ago
  Oh come on, it's not that hard even for packaging stuff (let alone usage). Quite trivial compared to leetcode grind I'd say.
  - amelius 2y ago
    Everybody will reinvent Nix if they are in software engineering long enough ...
    - 331c8c71 2y ago
      If only... Majority will use whatever is shoved up their a## be it docker or anything else.
  - sgarland 2y ago
    You say that, but there seems be a vast chasm between “can solve LC hards” and “can administer an OS,” even though the latter is generally not at all abstract, extremely well-documented, and almost certainly has associated man pages.
- Evidlo 2y ago
  Try flox [0]. It's an imperative frontend for Nix that I've been using. I don't know how to use nix-shell/flakes or whatever it is they do now, but flox makes it easy to just install stuff. [0]: https://flox.dev/ https://flox.dev/
- instig007 2y ago
  > You should try it sometime when your done fully ingesting algebraic topology theory or whatever the fuck Nix requires to know aka how to say that you've never really tried learning Nix without saying it directly.
forrestthewoods 2y ago
Nix people are more annoying than Rust Defense Force. I use Windows, and not WSL. Nix does literally nothing for me.
- instig007 2y ago
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  - forrestthewoods 2y ago
    There’s vastly more Windows devs than you realize. Vastly.

A few months ago I saw someone hacking the linker to get mundane package management working in Nix. It was bubbling up to the top of my "to try" list and that bumped it back down. It'll be good eventually, I'm sure.

instig007 2y ago
> It'll be good eventually, I'm sure. not with this attitude of getting scared of things by watching someone doing something, for sure
- smallmancontrov 2y ago
  I have fixed enough (dynamic) linker issues for this lifetime and probably several more. I think I'll let the kids take these. Godspeed.

lucsky 2y ago

That you can use without having 4 PhDs. It's pretty good. You should try it sometime when your done fully ingesting algebraic topology theory or whatever the fuck Nix requires to know just to install figlet.

331c8c71 2y ago
Oh come on, it's not that hard even for packaging stuff (let alone usage). Quite trivial compared to leetcode grind I'd say.
- amelius 2y ago
  Everybody will reinvent Nix if they are in software engineering long enough ...
  - 331c8c71 2y ago
    If only... Majority will use whatever is shoved up their a## be it docker or anything else.
- sgarland 2y ago
  You say that, but there seems be a vast chasm between “can solve LC hards” and “can administer an OS,” even though the latter is generally not at all abstract, extremely well-documented, and almost certainly has associated man pages.
Evidlo 2y ago
Try flox [0]. It's an imperative frontend for Nix that I've been using. I don't know how to use nix-shell/flakes or whatever it is they do now, but flox makes it easy to just install stuff. [0]: https://flox.dev/ https://flox.dev/
instig007 2y ago
> You should try it sometime when your done fully ingesting algebraic topology theory or whatever the fuck Nix requires to know aka how to say that you've never really tried learning Nix without saying it directly.

forrestthewoods 2y ago

Nix people are more annoying than Rust Defense Force. I use Windows, and not WSL. Nix does literally nothing for me.

instig007 2y ago
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- forrestthewoods 2y ago
  There’s vastly more Windows devs than you realize. Vastly.