Which is worse hell to write?
Evaluate on criteria such as lack of usable documentation, code ugliness, ease of determining what is wrong when something won't work, and generally the amount of headaches you experience trying to get something to work
GAMERS THE NIX ELECTION VOTER REGISTRATION IS UP RIGHT NOW, GO, GO, GO!!!!
WOKE MUST WIN!!!
One year has passed since the Nix community voted in the very first Nix Steering Committee. As some of their terms are coming to an end, the community must once again cast their ballots to form the next SC. Call to action If you are an automatically eligible voter, add your email to the voter list: https://github.com/NixOS/SC-election-2025/edit/main/eligible.csv If you are not automatically eligible but significantly contributed to the official projects in one way or another, you may ask for ...
Join us for NixOS CN Meetup #1 on August 9–10 held at ShanghaiTech University’s Pudong Campus, the first-ever Nix-focused event in China!
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/first-ever-nixos-cn-meetup-2025-08-09-10-shanghai/67457
#Lix just merged an experimental integer coercion feature.
That's useful if you want to interpolate an integer into a string. In #nixlang you previously needed to explicitly call `toString` to achieve that cast.
And checking my personal configuration it looks like I can drop all `toString` usage in my configuration with this.
https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix/src/branch/main/doc/manual/rl-next/integer-coercion.md
How we use Nix with Flakes ❄❄❄❄
https://qeef.srht.site/post/how-we-use-nix-with-flakes/
It looks like we use Nix with flakes since cradle to the grave.
Considering Nix flakes being experimental, that’s scary.
And Nix laungage itself does not help, neither so many conventions and confusions one needs to keep in mind.
You can write nicer nix code
https://qeef.srht.site/post/you-can-write-nicer-nix-code/
Here are some suggestions:
- Make nesting match the scope.
- Name things and name them properly.
- Let things in `let ... in ...` follow order.
Warning! Nix language!
https://qeef.srht.site/post/warning-nix-language/
I wrote a piece. But I am too tired to read it after myself. Sorry.
LET'S TALK ABOUT NIX, LET'S TALK ABOUT NIX BAYBEE
https://video.mycrowd.ca/videos/watch/e3e94908-2faf-4dac-af60-6ded3592017a
I'm not happy as a #NixOS user because of #NixLang but I'm finding I'm also not really happy as a former #Nix user either.
Anybody want to give me the hard sell on #guix? Do you find the free software licensing requirement to be limiting? Is package availability a problem otherwise?
Or should I give NixOS another shot?
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