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Re:NixOS is a good server OS, except when it isn't by jen20 on Monday October 07, 2024 @12:49PM (#41767981)
I'm not offering a case for or against either, to be clear - and neither are you - indeed you went so far as to say effectively you wouldn't even bother considering the semantics since they _must_ be awful.
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Re:NixOS is a good server OS, except when it isn't by anon291 on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @10:18AM (#41788240)
The semantics of the Pulumi runtime are probably fine, but the semantics of the DSL layer that preceeds that when mixed with the sensible semantics of the Pulumi runtime are a recipe for disaster. This is based on my extensive experience with declarative DSLs in imperative languages. The impedance mismatch is high. Nothing to do with Pulumi's internal state management, but it's beholden to javascript.
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