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nix-book
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A configuration management system for pets, not cattle
This seems more approachable than NixOS/Guix, which I see as state or the art for declarative hosts.
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/documentation-team-flattening-... aims to flatten the learning curve for NixOS.
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Our Roadmap for Nix
We're onto the pedagogy thing. Check out the Nix book efforts: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/documentation-team-flattening-....
Regarding the language and "configurations" specifically, you might like what we do with Nickel: https://github.com/tweag/nickel. Research project showing a potential future for Nix.
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Why the Windows Registry sucks technically (2010)
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-...
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Gui installer (Calamares) seems to be available in the unstable iso
yess https://github.com/NixOS/nix-book
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How should nix be used?!
there are efforts to better document the whole ecosystem (https://github.com/NixOS/nix-book)
nickel-nix
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NixOS and My Descent into Insanity
Have you tried https://github.com/nickel-lang/nickel-nix ?
I didn't use it yet, but looks like this supposed to do it.
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The guide to software development with Guix
These days those aren't the only options; you can also use Nickel: https://github.com/nickel-lang/nickel-nix
Which isn't fully baked, no, but here's hoping.
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Announcing Nickel 1.0, a configuration language written in (and usable from) Rust
One target-use case of Nickel is to be used as an alternative front-end for Nix (instead of Nix expressions). There is a draft RFC and a repository to use Nickel to write development shell (Nixel). The goal is that, one day, you can actually just transparently call to Nix code and into Nixpkgs. Until then, I totally understand that nothing can be the power of levering Nixpkgs... so your approach makes sense :)
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Our Roadmap for Nix
Undecided; see https://github.com/nickel-lang/nickel-nix for a proof-of-concept of an integration that requires making no changes to either Nickel or Nix.
What are some alternatives?
dirs-rs - a low-level library that provides config/cache/data paths, following the respective conventions on Linux, macOS and Windows
go-nix - Elements of Nix re-implemented as Go libraries [maintainer=@flokli]
sqlfs - Sqlite FUSE filesystem with sqlcipher support
flake-utils - Pure Nix flake utility functions [maintainer=@zimbatm]
nix-doc - An interactive Nix documentation tool providing a CLI for function search, a Nix plugin for docs in the REPL, and a ctags implementation for Nix script
vscode-yaml - YAML support for VS Code with built-in kubernetes syntax support
libsqlfs - a library that implements a POSIX style filesystem on top of an SQLite database
nixpkgs - Nix Packages collection & NixOS
guix-installer - A GNU Guix installer image with the full Linux kernel!
nix-1p - A (more or less) one page introduction to Nix, the language.
rules_nixpkgs - Rules for importing Nixpkgs packages into Bazel.