nix-1p VS dirs-rs

Fair enough. I've also had a couple of programs which weren't packaged already, fortunately it's quite easy to do so most of the time (or to just fall back to a distrobox container or flatpak in the worst case). If you decide to try it out, nix-1p and Nix Pills were great resources for me to get familiar with Nix and NixOS in a short time-span.

Wouldn't say there's a steep learning curve for the language itself, it's pretty easy to get a grasp around it imo. Here's a helpful page I used to quickly get familiar with the language: https://github.com/tazjin/nix-1p

What's rather messy about Nix is nixpkgs with its helper functions all over the place alongside pretty shallow / non-existent documentation (which is unrelated to the language). Thankfully they've started to work on that recently: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/documentation-team-flattening-...

I wrote a language tutorial for only the language a while back, and have gotten the feedback that it has helped a lot of people - maybe it'd clear something up for you: https://github.com/tazjin/nix-1p

For Nix language things I really like this page: https://github.com/tazjin/nix-1p

There are several libraries that handle directory for you in the appropriate OS-specific manner.

One Rust example being https://github.com/dirs-dev/dirs-rs

> The library provides the location of these directories by leveraging the mechanisms defined by

> the XDG base directory and the XDG user directory specifications on Linux and Redox

> the Known Folder API on Windows

> the Standard Directories guidelines on macOS

Yes. We have dirs for that, folks!

I'm using dirs to get the home directory. However, dirs::home_dir() returns an Option, which I can't quite grasp how to extract the string from, and the repo doesn't have examples for it either.