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Re:The Curse of NixOS by takeda on Monday January 24, 2022 @10:54PM (#30067765)
Looks like these things are being addressed, although from past of experience it probably will take several years :( (when I started using Nix, 3 years there was a talk about this new thing called flakes, now the version 2.4 already contains it, but it is still locked behind experimental features)

1. https://github.com/tweag/nickel - it is a typed language, that might in the future replace nix language

2. looks like likely is addressed by flakes

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Re:The Curse of NixOS by klarkc on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @10:29AM (#30072859)
There is also https://github.com/purenix-org/purenix
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Re:The Curse of NixOS by takeda on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @01:52PM (#30076197)
That's interesting, looks like it is transpiler that could be used immediately if someone doesn't mind the extra step. Thank you for sharing it.

BTW: the Nickel has chance to end up replace Nix language as I saw author of Nix (Eelco) is also contributing to it. I don't think it can transpile to a nix code.

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