News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Simple-twitter: A bare-bones Twitter clone implemented in a single file. Parent comment

Re:Simple-twitter: A bare-bones Twitter clone implemented in... by OrgNet on Thursday November 21, 2019 @07:21PM (#21601251)
lol... a file that contains a bunch of files? is that an archive? or a set of instructions to download a bunch of files? what is the world coming to?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Simple-twitter: A bare-bones Twitter clone implemented in... by chownie on Friday November 22, 2019 @10:25AM (#21606335)
Think of it as a declarative program, you describe the state of the machine as you want it and the nix package manager handles all of the rest.

It downloads, installs, configures, builds and runs from your declarative description. This is my understanding of how nix works anyway.

[ Parent | on HN ]