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How Nix and NixOS get so close to perfect

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Re: How Nix and NixOS get so close to perfect

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Your argumentation is just completely wrong, you think that "significant usage" is some kind of "quality". You try to argue that a hammer and a screwdriver are of significant usage, when i fact the best tool for the job is a scalpel. FWI HN was not written in JavaScript or PHP but you can lookup that for yourself.

> Your argumentation is just completely wrong, you think that "significant usage" is some kind of "quality". Nowhere did I claim that - you're reading things I did not say. Claiming that something is rejected by everyone does not make any statement on the quality of that thing. [EDIT: It's kinda common knowledge that Haskell is barely used in industry. I cannot remember coming across a single non-academic programmer…

>rejected by everyone

It should be clear now, that this is a wrong statement.

Re: How Nix and NixOS get so close to perfect

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I’m a Staff Software Engineer in a Fortune 500. I’ve delivered a multitude of complex projects to production. Trying to setup Nix made me feel dumb and incompetent.

So you found a concept that didn’t come naturally to you. If you are as successful at this field as you want us to believe, you would probably have learned by now that all technologies click differently for different people depending on the context they bring in when learning it. I can’t imagine taking myself so seriously that I would write a comment like this. This is an opportunity for self reflection more than a l…

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Re: How Nix and NixOS get so close to perfect

#183
post #181

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Your argumentation is just completely wrong, you think that "significant usage" is some kind of "quality". Nowhere did I claim that - you're reading things I did not say. Claiming that something is rejected by everyone does not make any statement on the quality of that thing. [EDIT: It's kinda common knowledge that Haskell is barely used in industry. I cannot remember coming across a single non-academic programmer…

>rejected by everyone It should be clear now, that this is a wrong statement.

>> rejected by everyone

> It should be clear now, that this is a wrong statement.

You're correct - it's rejected by roughly 999 out of every thousand programmers.

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