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20 years, is that the compile time now? ;)
(The compile time of Nix itself is unpleasant, but not exactly exceptional among programs written in the modern C++ style. The eval time even for Nixpkgs even on a ten-year-old i5 is annoying but not a terrible problem the way it’s used now, though even on a recent Android device it’s admittedly measured in minutes.)
Seriously, how is anything so hard to use still around after 20 years!
Doe nix work at all? Or is it just not actually functional on top of MacOS? I've tried a dozen times over the years and I've never gotten it working. Seriously, how is anything so hard to use still around after 20 years!
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Hold up we're talking about Nix not Rust ! (yeah sorry couldn't resist, I know this is probably misleading)
And here I was thinking about Gentoo...
I always found Arch to be a much more reasonable system for this use case because compiling everything from scratch was just pointless, at least back then. But it still maoes it easy to rebuild packages with custom patches etc.
Doe nix work at all? Or is it just not actually functional on top of MacOS? I've tried a dozen times over the years and I've never gotten it working. Seriously, how is anything so hard to use still around after 20 years!
Doe nix work at all? Or is it just not actually functional on top of MacOS? I've tried a dozen times over the years and I've never gotten it working. Seriously, how is anything so hard to use still around after 20 years!
I have been exploring nix for the past few months and my experience with nix has been both exhilarating and frustrating, simultaneously. On one hand, I find it hard to imagine not using nix now, but on the other hand, I hesitate to recommend it to other colleagues due to its steep learning curve, ux issues and potential for footguns. I sincerely hope that nix community improves the UX to make it more accessible to ne…
Hey! We've been working at Cachix to address this using https://devenv.sh/ . It's primary targeted to improve DX and on-board users quickly.
I expect my main hurdle will be stuff that isn’t in NicPkgs. Especially for dev stuff, I’m going to want to pull in low-profile GitHub stuff or Python packages. What’s the escape hatch to bring those into the dev environment?
Doe nix work at all? Or is it just not actually functional on top of MacOS? I've tried a dozen times over the years and I've never gotten it working. Seriously, how is anything so hard to use still around after 20 years!