yagrouze

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   by yagrouze 2y ago

   Actually we learned about Google's NCL way after, when discussing with CUE's author, that we happen to know as well. So it's a funny coincidence. Nickel originated from NCL which is both a recursive acronym (Nickel Configurat
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   by yagrouze 2y ago

   (also, it seems `foldl'` is an ad-hoc builtin operation in Nix, probably for perf reasons, so the comparison isn't entirely fair either)
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   by yagrouze 2y ago

   That looks bad indeed. I must say that contracts, while very nice for error reporting and all, also brings additional challenge related to performance (cf https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2914770.2837630 ). Our stanc
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   by yagrouze 2y ago

   I think the answer is yes and no. As a language (and as far as tooling is involved), I think Nickel is entirely suitable to fill the same role as the Nix language (maybe at the same scale as Nixpkgs the performance will need some work, but
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   by yagrouze 2y ago

   I wouldn't say they are very similar. Nix is a fairly barebone functional language, so it does embed fairly straightforwardly into other functional languages (including Nickel, but it's true for Haskell, OCaml, Dhall, Jsonnet, Sca
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   by yagrouze 2y ago

   (disclaimer: Nickel dev) Thanks for the feedback. It sounded obvious to me, but I reckon that after looking at the website again, it's never spelled explicitly really on the front page. Nickel is a domain-specific programming language