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Re:The Nix NGI Team: Advancing Open Source with Nix by misuzu on Friday January 24, 2025 @09:28AM (#42813323)
Nix is actually really simple (basically json with functions) and can be learned in under an hour, see https://nixcloud.io/tour/?id=introduction/nix

IMO the nix language is excellent as templating language, I'd happily use it instead of jinja2 for generating html at a daily job, maybe this will be possible at some point.

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Re:The Nix NGI Team: Advancing Open Source with Nix by ChocolateGod on Friday January 24, 2025 @09:35AM (#42813383)
The language is alright, the documentation and rate at which things change is the issue.

You wanted to do something and found a page about how to do it? Cool, good chance it won't work anymore cause it changed. If you do get an error from nixos-rebuild because of your nix files, the error report will probably not be useful either.

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