Re:NixOS for the Impatient
by n8henrie on Friday June 09, 2023 @10:32PM
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Absolutely. I'm about a year deep on nix / NixOS and still spend way too much time refactoring things to be more DRY or what I think might be more idiomatic or maintainable going forward (as opposed to a more obvious but uglier approach). Definitely makes it easy to waste time prematurely optimizing, if you're prone to that sort of thing.
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Re:NixOS for the Impatient
by soraminazuki on Friday June 09, 2023 @11:21PM
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The difference is that with Nix, you'd always have a working configuration. With traditional deploy tools, scripts stop working at the most inconvenient timing because they're not reproducible.