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Re:Spectrum OS: a declarative, reproducible, compartmentaliz... by maxdamantus on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @11:54PM (#28535075)
> 1. Add types to the Nix expression language

Interestingly, this was one of the first issues that Edolstra (creator of Nix) raised himself, but unfortunately he closed it again as unrealistic a number of years later [0].

[0] https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/14#issuecomment-37820190...

Re:Spectrum OS: a declarative, reproducible, compartmentaliz... by akavel on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @10:30AM (#28539523)
Thanks for linking this - reading through the thread made me discover a cool related project! -> https://github.com/tweag/nickel/

See esp.: https://github.com/tweag/nickel/#related-projects-and-inspir...