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nixos-beginners-handbook
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The Curse of NixOS
This is a pretty good example the kind of victim blaming I'm talking about. It's a kind of insidious toxicity that permeates certain communities, although I've not been able to put my finger on what exactly brings it out, or why it's so tightly clung to as an acceptable behavior in some places.
I actually tried to help for awhile, and even started a help guide https://github.com/kstenerud/nixos-beginners-handbook/
But eventually one gets ground down and demoralized enough to just give up. It's a real shame, because I LOVE what NixOS is trying to accomplish.
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- Jsonnet – The Data Templating Language
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The Curse of NixOS
People have tried: https://github.com/jkcfg/jk
But yeah I agree. The thing is, if all you need is robust determinism why do you need a full functional language with currying and other complex concepts?
Google had the same problem for Bazel, and their solution (Starlark) is way easier to understand.
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Pants vs. Bazel: Why Pants may be the right choice for your team
If I were writing a build system today (and I did just write one actually to test out some ideas) I would use Typescript for the language with something like jk to provide hermeticity. Typescript has many advantages, especially over Python, but mainly:
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The Perfect Configuration Format? Try TypeScript
It's possible to sandbox most languages, and with some work you can probably make them deterministic too.
Here's an example: https://github.com/jkcfg/jk
That beats having to learn an entirely new language.
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Cue: A new language for data validation
Maybe Javascript? A lot of web tools support Javascript config files. There's this nice-looking effort to provide a hermetic execution environment for them: https://github.com/jkcfg/jk and if you use Typescript you get an extremely good static type system too. Plus the language is already very well known with loads of tool support and documentation.
Definitely what I would use today.
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What is the difference between JSON and YAML?
If you think "but I need conditionals and file inclusion and ..." then maybe consider just allowing a full programming language instead. Someone pointed me to jk which looks like it is heading in the right direction, except that it outputs YAML by default for some insane reason.
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Boa release v0.13
You may be interested in jk. If you don't want to use a special purpose configuration language (jsonnet, cue, dhall, etc), this is a nice alternative that uses js in a hermetic runtime (but see their open issues for progress on that). They seem to also be adding native typescript support so you could even have type checking built-in.
What are some alternatives?
nix-prisma-example - An example Prisma project using nix
vm2 - Advanced vm/sandbox for Node.js
nixpkgs-config - ~/.config/nixpkgs
dhall-lang - Maintainable configuration files
nix-embedded - Nix embedded image generator.
pants - The Pants Build System
nix-helpers - Mirror of http://chriswarbo.net/git/nix-helpers.git
hof - Framework that joins data models, schemas, code generation, and a task engine. Language and technology agnostic.
digga - A flake utility library to craft shell-, home-, and hosts- environments.
FlatBuffers - FlatBuffers: Memory Efficient Serialization Library
impermanence - Modules to help you handle persistent state on systems with ephemeral root storage [maintainer=@talyz]
jsonnet - Jsonnet - The data templating language