Re:I Was Wrong about Nix
by catalogia on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @03:25AM
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On the other hand you've got 'stdenv' all over the place in the Nix example, e.g. stdenv.lib.licenses.bsd3 vs license:bsd3. Also stdenv.mkDerivation is kind of an eyesore compared to define-public / package.
One is nicer than the other in a few different minor ways, but overall I think it's basically a wash. I'd not consider verbosity a factor if choosing between the two.
>(There's an indentation error in either your example or my browser that makes that input clause appear to belong to the origin clause rather than the package clause, btw.
Sorry about that, I botched the indentation when I pasted that into my scratch buffer, which had unbalanced parens in it. That's on me.
One is nicer than the other in a few different minor ways, but overall I think it's basically a wash. I'd not consider verbosity a factor if choosing between the two.
>(There's an indentation error in either your example or my browser that makes that input clause appear to belong to the origin clause rather than the package clause, btw.
Sorry about that, I botched the indentation when I pasted that into my scratch buffer, which had unbalanced parens in it. That's on me.