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0 pointspacketlost10mo ago0 comments

Been there. Powered through it. It gets easier when you actually read the Nix manual.

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Nix Pills are probably the best way to get a deep understanding of Nix and some underpinnings of nixpkgs. I read the pills when I started using Nix in 2018 and never had much difficulty understanding the language or most of nixpkgs.

packetlostOP10mo ago

The biggest thing I've hit is linking issues with Rust -sys crates (ie. C/C++ libraries wrapped). There's some very strange behavior if you include gcc and clang (for example) into the same environment.

My biggest issue with Nix tbh is it adds an annoying step to every random repo I want to clone and build.

kstenerud10mo ago

Been there. Powered through it. Read the manuals. Stuck to it for a year before asking why I was behaving like a masochist.

Now I use Debian and LXC and docker.

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