Nix Survival Mode: macOS upgrades won't break Nix anymore

Re:Nix Survival Mode: macOS upgrades won't break Nix anymore by semi-extrinsic on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @02:48PM (#38016699)

All these newfangled abstractions like Nix, Docker, virtualenvs etc. are simply because people find it more interesting (and easier to monetize) to build new frameworks instead of learning to use existing ones.

As an example, Environment Modules solves 98% of these problems and has been available for more than 30 years:

https://modules.sourceforge.net/docs/Modules-Paper.pdf

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Re:Nix Survival Mode: macOS upgrades won't break Nix anymore by grhmc on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @03:19PM (#38017034)

I don’t think that’s quite true, though I noticed Eelco didn’t mention Furlani’s work in his 2006 phd thesis on Nix (started in 2003): https://edolstra.github.io/pubs/phd-thesis.pdf

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