Re:Show HN: Devbox – Easy, predictable shells and containers
by ParetoOptimal on Friday August 26, 2022 @10:10AM
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> Nix goes from a genuinely interesting idea to an "oh, that's cute" experimental toy because no one is going to spend hours learning Nix's weird DSL. It's simply not approachable in its base form.
Here's an opposite opinion:
> My hot take is that Nix actually has great syntax
> In particular, the way Nix handles record syntax is exemplary and more languages should copy what Nix does in this regard
And even more related to this discussion:
> A lot of the times, when people say they hate "Nix's syntax", what they more likely mean is that they hate the domain-specific languages of the Nixpkgs overlay system and/or the NixOS module system
Here's an opposite opinion:
> My hot take is that Nix actually has great syntax
> In particular, the way Nix handles record syntax is exemplary and more languages should copy what Nix does in this regard
And even more related to this discussion:
> A lot of the times, when people say they hate "Nix's syntax", what they more likely mean is that they hate the domain-specific languages of the Nixpkgs overlay system and/or the NixOS module system
https://mobile.twitter.com/GabriellaG439/status/156300116656...