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Re:A decade of dotfiles by a-dub on Monday May 30, 2022 @09:36AM (#31558794)
i want to like nix, but the inconsistent naming and use of the language was a huge turn off.

all the randomly named config options and the spotty coverage of them were like fingernails on the chalkboard for me.

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Re:A decade of dotfiles by SuperSandro2000 on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @12:56PM (#31571863)
The nix language almost always uses camel case while packages use kebab case.

Options are almost exclusively discovered through search.nixos.org, the configuration man page or by reading the source code. Since the introduction of structured settings there is also often a way to set settings in a freeform type.

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