I love Nix so much, because you can just super easily contain an entire development environment in one file. This stuff is genuinely
Why isn't literally everyone using Nix?
[#]nix #nixos
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Here, a development environment that installs
And sets it up correctly, in an isolated environment? With a nice "hey, this is how you use this development environment" comment as a cherry on top?
The entire Nix file is 46 lines of code. Most of it boilerplate.
[#]nix #nixos
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@Laauurraaa Care to link the source? 🙂
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@pmidden The source is in the picture :p
https://github.com/Azeirah/L-Systems-editor
See the flake.nix in the repo.
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@Laauurraaa ahhh Lindenmayer systems. Cool stuff!
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@pmidden I actually wanted to study biology when I was in middle school but I kinda went for computer science because I felt like it was the obvious choice?
Well, turns out it's people who put things in boxes. Not life.
So I get to do both :D
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@Laauurraaa Well, there's also bioinformatics?
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@Laauurraaa @pmidden fyi the dedentation of the shell hook there isn't required: the nix language already eats leading indents in '' block literals so it will get eaten for you.
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@leftpaddotpy @pmidden Ohhh
I just spent a moment on your site. Have you seen the talk by Joe Armstrong? Before he died?
I read your article on postmodern build systems. My mind is barely wrapping itself around Nix, and you're suggesting the what's going to be blowing enthusiast people's minds 20 years from now... lmao
My mind can only do so much exploding every week
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@leftpaddotpy @pmidden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKXe3HUG2l4
This talk is sooo good. Mostly because it's by Joe, but also because it's soooo good.
Much recommend!
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@Laauurraaa @pmidden yeah i think I've watched this before but i enjoyed watching it again anyway. thanks for the link.
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@Laauurraaa As a pretty heavy nix user, I still can't say I love the language, but the results can hardly be argued with!
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@adriano Yeahh.. The language is a bit sketchy. But the ecosystem? Oh gosh, it's so good.
The fundamental principles? Even better.
Nix is a philosophy, not a tool.
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@adriano (although it happens to be a tool too!)
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@Laauurraaa Absolutely.
I've been using devenv to do what you're doing here, btw. I imagine you've heard of it, but just in case you haven't, now you have!
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@Laauurraaa This is awesome! I still have struggles with flakes. 😭
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@Laauurraaa you will greatly benefit from using nix-direnv! 😉
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@Laauurraaa Ha, reading comments in images w/o alt text might help.
Thank you for sharing the public git repo in that screenshot, guess this will help me getting started!
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@Laauurraaa
Why isn't literally everyone using Nix?
Because it's easier to complain about how they don't like the language.
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@cbleslie Eh, I'd agree with them :p
Nix is an awful language.
But the Nix ideology? Holy moly.
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@Laauurraaa As I have said before:
"No one is here because Nix is a pretty language"
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@cbleslie @Laauurraaa that's cold, Leslie 🥶
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@arichtman @Laauurraaa what's cooler than being cool?
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@cbleslie @Laauurraaa sure, not every user is writing their custom nix types or even lib helper functions , but it can it go towards , but even those who try/ do ( me for one, but just to be able to reuse my old code / system design not builds ) , end up struggling not to break the ideal guarantees
-- noob
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@Laauurraaa Maybe because the NixOS foundation behind Nix has turned asshole-right-winged lately.
But I can't switch to GUIX yet as I don't get Guile and they're missing a lot of tools I desperately need.
(As I don't get Guile I can't provide that missing tools, obviously.)
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@Laauurraaa It breaks with user habits, and that's why its adoption isn't this fast! People have literally died trying to climb the documentation!
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@jean_dupont Whahaha that reminds me of the emacs learning curve.
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@Laauurraaa 😂😂😂
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