Ancestors

Written by Laauurraaa on 2024-12-02 at 16:22

I love Nix so much, because you can just super easily contain an entire development environment in one file. This stuff is genuinely

• More flexible than docker

• Easier than docker

• More reliable than docker

• Faster than docker

• More powerful than docker

Why isn't literally everyone using Nix?

[#]nix #nixos

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Toot

Written by Laauurraaa on 2024-12-02 at 16:24

Here, a development environment that installs

1. Bun

2. Playwright

3. Chrome, firefox and a generic webkit browser

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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Descendants

Written by Philipp :emacs: :nixos: on 2024-12-02 at 17:14

@Laauurraaa Care to link the source? 🙂

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Written by Laauurraaa on 2024-12-02 at 18:24

@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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Written by Philipp :emacs: :nixos: on 2024-12-02 at 20:24

@Laauurraaa ahhh Lindenmayer systems. Cool stuff!

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Written by Laauurraaa on 2024-12-03 at 11:11

@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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Written by Philipp :emacs: :nixos: on 2024-12-03 at 11:11

@Laauurraaa Well, there's also bioinformatics?

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Written by systemd-jaded on 2024-12-03 at 00:25

@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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Written by Laauurraaa on 2024-12-03 at 00:42

@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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Written by Laauurraaa on 2024-12-03 at 00:43

@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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Written by systemd-jaded on 2024-12-04 at 01:50

@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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Written by Adriano on 2024-12-02 at 17:27

@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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Written by Laauurraaa on 2024-12-02 at 18:25

@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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Written by Laauurraaa on 2024-12-02 at 18:25

@adriano (although it happens to be a tool too!)

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Written by Adriano on 2024-12-02 at 18:28

@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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Written by mafe en españa on 2024-12-03 at 08:49

@Laauurraaa This is awesome! I still have struggles with flakes. 😭

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Written by Areskill on 2024-12-03 at 09:41

@Laauurraaa you will greatly benefit from using nix-direnv! 😉

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Written by mafe en españa on 2024-12-03 at 19:52

@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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