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0 pointsbfrog10mo ago0 comments

Unless it becomes a typed language with clearer syntax around what is what, it’s painful at the scale of nixpkgs and nix without nixpkgs just isn’t all that useful.

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nylonstrung10mo ago

https://nickel-lang.org/ is a configuration language similar to a typed Nix

I'm hopeful something like this could get adopted in future Nix tooling

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

0 pointsbfrog10mo ago0 comments

Unless it becomes a typed language with clearer syntax around what is what, it’s painful at the scale of nixpkgs and nix without nixpkgs just isn’t all that useful.

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nylonstrung10mo ago

https://nickel-lang.org/ is a configuration language similar to a typed Nix

I'm hopeful something like this could get adopted in future Nix tooling

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse