sambacha
commented
2 years ago Quite some time ago the research papers on Nix and NixOS were removed from the website.
@edolstra What was the reason was to do that, except academic papers being "scary"? Most essential things in them are still true, but most importantly they are the only material which explain motivation, rationale and architecture of Nix and NixOS.
This is only my personal anecdatum, but the theses were the central resource for me to understand what Nix is and why it is conceptually superior to anything else out there. Otherwise I would not have bothered to fight my way into making use of it. Here is what the research section looked like when I started out.
On top of that it's part of the project's and community's history. I agree with #446 (comment) that it should be kept accessible.
Maybe we can find a nice spot for the papers somewhere?
Preach Brother fricklerhandwerk, this is kind of important
lorenzleutgeb
Quite some time ago the research papers on Nix and NixOS were removed from the website.
@edolstra What was the reason was to do that, except academic papers being "scary"? Most essential things in them are still true, but most importantly they are the only material which explain motivation, rationale and architecture of Nix and NixOS.
This is only my personal anecdatum, but the theses were the central resource for me to understand what Nix is and why it is conceptually superior to anything else out there. Otherwise I would not have bothered to fight my way into making use of it. Here is what the research section looked like when I started out.
On top of that it's part of the project's and community's history. I agree with https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-homepage/issues/446#issuecomment-697486801 that it should be kept accessible.
Maybe we can find a nice spot for the papers somewhere?