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Re:Ask HN: What is the single top-priority software engineer... by thundergolfer on Saturday February 08, 2020 @06:12PM (#22279281)
Agree that Nix is a great candidate. The PhD about it is quite readable and demonstrates the rigour with which the author approaches this problem space.

It’s pretty difficult to understand and use though.

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Re:Ask HN: What is the single top-priority software engineer... by whateveracct on Saturday February 08, 2020 @06:29PM (#22279348)
Nix has pretty awful UX for sure. It's kind of a trial by fire to learn it.

But once you do, you can build abstractions to improve that UX. But it would be nice if vanilla Nix was easier.

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