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The Nix Thesis #11

Open JonathanLorimer opened 1 year ago

JonathanLorimer commented 1 year ago

https://jonathanlorimer.dev/posts/nix-thesis.html

jherland commented 1 year ago

Just want to show my appreciation for this post. I found it very digestible, and it helped me crystallize some of the important principles and concepts. The links at the end, to up-to-date efforts on more foundational Nix improvements, was especially appreciated.

JonathanLorimer commented 1 year ago

@jherland Hey, thanks for the positive feedback! I'm glad you found the blog post useful.

byrongibson commented 1 year ago

Great essay, thanks. I've been using NixOS for two years, but have never seen a summary of the original thesis like this.

One minor suggestion, at the end, on adding types to the Nix language, there's one more worth mentioning in addition to Nickel and Purenix - Dhall.

gdennie commented 6 months ago

Thanks. It was a good summary.