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Indeed. Nixpkgs wouldn't have been as successful if it hadn't been using Git (or GitHub). Sure, eventually you run into scaling issues, but that's a first world problem.

It wasn't always that way. When I began studying CS at Utrecht University, there was no Windows at all. It was Solaris, IRIX and a bit of HP-UX.

To be clear, there is no bug here: derivers are simply not uniquely determined in the presence of fixed-output derivations, which is by design. That's even more true with CA deriva…

The deriver field in Nix has always been a misfeature. It was intended to provide traceability back to the Nix expression used to create the derivation, but it doesn't actually do …

In most shells, "#" is not special unless it's preceded by whitespace. So > echo "Hello Nix" | nix run nixpkgs#ponysay also works.

It refers to the new CLI, i.e. the "nix" command. The old CLI is the nix-* commands (nix-env, nix-store, etc.). The new CLI and flakes are still marked experimental, but the plan i…

It's because Nix wants to install into /nix. Once upon a time doing "sudo mkdir /nix" wasn't a problem, but recent macOS releases have made that very hard. Nix could switch to an a…

I'm sorry, but how exactly is this "amazing"? That you can find some bits to append to a number such that it becomes prime is rather obvious, given that there are an infinite numbe…

In NixOS (the Linux distribution based on Nix [1]) we use the functional approach for managing all the "static" parts of the system, i.e. packages, but also most configuration file…

Feel free to try it out to see that it does, in fact, do this. No special magic is needed (most of the time): for instance, for dynamic library dependencies you can just set the RP…