NixOS for the Impatient

Re:NixOS for the Impatient by jalino23 on Friday June 09, 2023 @10:34PM (#36267012)

alright time to learn nix

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Re:NixOS for the Impatient by herewulf on Saturday June 10, 2023 @03:52AM (#36268582)

And if you don't like it, you might try Guix which is a Guile Scheme based implementation of basically all the same concepts and features.

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Re:NixOS for the Impatient by UniqueUsername0 on Saturday June 10, 2023 @08:07AM (#36269793)

Wrong. Guix's ecosystem is very much behind Nix's.

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Re:NixOS for the Impatient by npub1zenn0 on Saturday June 10, 2023 @02:42PM (#36273547)

This is keeping me from immediately jumping on Nix.

I'd rather use guix and scheme, but it's behind. If I learn nix, and then guix some day catches up, I'll already know nix and won't want to make the change anymore. Can't say I like the outlook for guix.

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Re:NixOS for the Impatient by herewulf on Sunday June 11, 2023 @02:35AM (#36278780)

Interesting. I've been writing Bash scripts for over 20 years and despite my comfort with it, I'm always exploring avenues of replacing it. Despite the time investment already spent, I know there are far better tools out there to do the same jobs.

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Re:NixOS for the Impatient by herewulf on Sunday June 11, 2023 @02:25AM (#36278742)

Perhaps you could expound upon that?

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