My First Impressions of Nix

Re:My First Impressions of Nix by Cloudef on Monday June 19, 2023 @05:45AM (#36389146)

If you have OSX, it's much more reliable and better option than homebrew, so there it would pay off immediately

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Re:My First Impressions of Nix by mdaniel on Monday June 19, 2023 @01:07PM (#36393585)

Just for your consideration, the network effect is very real with package managers, too:

https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=23.05&show=awscli2 is 2.11.27 (even on the "unstable" channel), versus https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/awscli#default that is 2.12.1, which correctly is the most current (https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/tags)

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Re:My First Impressions of Nix by soraminazuki on Monday June 19, 2023 @02:01PM (#36394439)

This is incorrect. Nixpkgs updated to 2.12 on the same day as Homebrew.

- Nixpkgs (3 days ago): https://nixpk.gs/pr-tracker.html?pr=238031

- Homebrew (3 days ago): https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/133968

Your link refers to the 23.05 stable release channel, so it'd likely stay at 2.11. Package updates don't get backported to stable channels except for fixes. Additionally, the package search page probably isn't updated in real time so the version might be slightly out of sync.

Nixpkgs is generally quick to update packages because Nix encourages automation.

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