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Re:SnowflakeOS: Beginner friendly and GUI focused NixOS variant by ilc on Wednesday July 31, 2024 @11:02PM (#41125787)
The biggest one is: There's 1001 poorly documented ways to do things.

So until you learn to read nix, have a nix LSP etc. It is a major PITA.

You can be reading a .nix file and be like... "What the ... is that?"

And sadly, you know you'll inflict it on some poor person later.

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Re:SnowflakeOS: Beginner friendly and GUI focused NixOS variant by pxc on Wednesday July 31, 2024 @11:36PM (#41125914)
I've never used a language server for Nix but I do use the repl. Are any of the language server implementations good these days?
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Re:SnowflakeOS: Beginner friendly and GUI focused NixOS variant by mtndew4brkfst on Wednesday July 31, 2024 @11:56PM (#41126019)
I most frequently used https://github.com/oxalica/nil and there is a C++ one I haven't tried that reuses code directly from the NixCpp implementation.
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