nylOct 18, 2023

What do you dislike about Nix/NixOS?

https://lemmy.opensupply.space/post/7725

What do you dislike about Nix/NixOS? - Open Supply

Could be areas of improvement as well

Show threaddblsaikoOct 18, 2023
It’s accumulated a lot of cruft over its 20 years of existence. Especially the language, which can’t be changed due to otherwise breaking backwards compatibility.
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There are attempts to get a handle on that

github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/137

[RFC 137] Nix language versioning by fricklerhandwerk · Pull Request #137 · NixOS/rfcs

Introduce a convention to determine which version of the Nix language grammar to use for parsing and evaluating Nix expressions. Add parameters to the Nix language evaluator, controlling the behavi...

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