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Hello, Domen Kožar and I (Robert Hensing) are working on a brand new Continuous Integration service for Nix users. Some distinguishing features: * First class integration with Nix …

What I like about Nix is that this kind of functionality can be integrated into the Nixpkgs package set, as a function over packages. It's just as easy as writing a machine image o…

This approach is already optimal for up to around 40 or 120 packages, depending on whether you want to support old Docker versions. "Where before you wouldn’t bother trying to have…

Nix does run on Windows Subsystem for Linux these days.

Doesn't solve your support problem, but... Re "revert to a last known good working system state": some distributions provides this capability. For example, in NixOS, your system is…

Or tell the truth about the truth ;) https://www.google.nl/search?num=0&q=the%20truth

Feedback: Firefox support could be better: color picker does not respond, time entry widget is annoying. It would be nice to have a feedback/contact button or info about liquidtime…

There are great tools for that in both Scala and Haskell. In Scala you can use var, which is easy. In Haskell you can write your algorithm using ST and then use it as a pure functi…

In Scala, the implicit arguments are implicit, yes, but the parameter is not. You will have to declare the implicit parameter, even if you omit a type signature. I think I forgot t…

Well they put in an effort of 1400 man years for just the software. They even built an interpreter, because (flight/trajectory) requirements were changing all the time. Also: "The …

Type class instance parameters must be explicit in Scala, whereas Haskell can usually infer them. That might make a free monad approach more interesting in Scala. However, if you r…