Nix – A One Pager

Re:Nix – A One Pager by orbital-decay on Sunday April 07, 2024 @04:01AM (#39959099)

Is it that much of a DSL when domain-specific primitives are mostly abstracted away in a standard library written in Nix itself, with underlying machinery written in shell, and when it heavily relies on shell and foreign config snippets to do the job?

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Re:Nix – A One Pager by kreetx on Sunday April 07, 2024 @04:23AM (#39959227)

Much of JavaScript's underlying machinery is also written in C++, how do you feel about that?

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Re:Nix – A One Pager by orbital-decay on Sunday April 07, 2024 @04:56AM (#39959384)

I usually don't need to write C++ when writing in JavaScript, though. Writing derivations in Nix in real world implies using the standard library and writing shell scripts for mkDerivation & co. ("domain specific" shell scripts that use stdenv)

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Re:Nix – A One Pager by kreetx on Sunday April 07, 2024 @03:17PM (#39963027)

Hmm, I write nix too, but never write shell within nix. Do you use it for custom builders?

How is using (nix?) standard library something that you don't want?

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