nyl@lemmy.opensupply.space to nixos@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 years agoWhat do you dislike about Nix/NixOS?message-squaremessage-square38linkfedilinkarrow-up117arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up117arrow-down1message-squareWhat do you dislike about Nix/NixOS?nyl@lemmy.opensupply.space to nixos@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 years agomessage-square38linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squaredblsaiko@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 years agoIt’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.
minus-squareck_@discuss.tchncs.dedeleted by creatorlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 years agoThere are attempts to get a handle on that https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/137
minus-squareAtemu@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 years agoThere’s Nickel which is sort of Nix expression language 2.0 but, honestly, the Nix expression language is perfectly adequate for what it needs to do. Not to say it couldn’t be better I wouldn’t put it inn any top 10 of what is holding Nix back.
minus-squareck_@discuss.tchncs.dedeleted by creatorlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 years agoIt has one major advantage over Nix though: it comes with a built in code formatter!
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.
There are attempts to get a handle on that
https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/137
There’s Nickel which is sort of Nix expression language 2.0 but, honestly, the Nix expression language is perfectly adequate for what it needs to do.
Not to say it couldn’t be better I wouldn’t put it inn any top 10 of what is holding Nix back.
It has one major advantage over Nix though: it comes with a built in code formatter!