Re:Guix: Unifying provisioning, deployment, and management i...
by takeda on Saturday June 12, 2021 @12:55PM
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The Nickel author is the Nix author or at least one of contributors (Eelco Dolstra) so as long as the project is successful it will likely be introduced back to Nix.
Edit: actually looking at contributions Yann Hamdaoui seems like the main contributor, but I saw Eelco contributing to it.
As a nix-lang fan, I've been using dhall as a nix-like build system configuration language when I need to work outside of the nix ecosystem. I love its use of static typing, but it's not without its rough edges. Defining recursive types is not simple and writing configs which need to mix rigidly-typed domain knowledge with arbitrary loose json data can be very tricky.
It looks nickel's authors have these use cases in mind. I'm excited to keep an eye on this project.