One Week of NixOS

Re:One Week of NixOS by toyg on Sunday November 08, 2020 @08:39AM (#25025723)

Damn, I was tempted by it some time ago and found it required way too much investment, so I thought “I’ll check back once they build enough stuff on top to make most of these tasks easily-manageable without being an expert”. But if it has not happened in 17 years, it probably never will...

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Re:One Week of NixOS by Shoue on Sunday November 08, 2020 @09:02AM (#25025873)

I'm not sure it's fair to say because it hasn't happened in the 17 years of NixOS' lifespan, that it never will, when the last 5 years of NixOS have been the most active by large:

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/graphs/code-frequency

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Re:One Week of NixOS by danieldk on Sunday November 08, 2020 @10:32AM (#25026337)

Also, there are some large recent initiatives to improve Nix and NixOS, such as Flakes (which give Nix package sets a standard layout and improves hermatic evaluation). Eelco Dolstra has also presented a proposal at NixCon 2020 to improve the module system's usability:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sQa04olUA0&t=1h24m18s

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