Reposting because it looks like federation failed.

I was just reading about it, it sounds like a pretty cool OS and package manager. Has anyone actually used it?

  • AggressivelyPassive@feddit.de
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    9 months ago

    Nix is absolutely horrible as a language, though.

    I’m a software developer with almost two decades of Linux experience and still struggle to make sense out of the structure. I can eventually get everything to run, but I don’t understand why and that’s extremely concerning.

    Even simple scripts like flakes don’t work as expected. I tried to set up a simple environment with a bunch of packages (java, maven, etc) and I found about five completely different approaches online , none of which worked. And again: I couldn’t understand why.

    The results - once everything works - are impressive, but the way to these results is far too complicated and convoluted. There’s no way, this much complexity is needed by default. That’s just bad design.