nix-book

Nix documentation – centralized community online learning resource for Nix (by NixOS)

Nix-book Alternatives

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nix-book reviews and mentions

Posts with mentions or reviews of nix-book. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-31.
  • A configuration management system for pets, not cattle
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Oct 2022
    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.

  • Our Roadmap for Nix
    22 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Aug 2022
    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.

  • Why the Windows Registry sucks technically (2010)
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Jul 2022
    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-...

  • Gui installer (Calamares) seems to be available in the unstable iso
    1 project | /r/NixOS | 3 Jun 2022
    yess https://github.com/NixOS/nix-book
  • How should nix be used?!
    2 projects | /r/Nix | 24 May 2022
    there are efforts to better document the whole ecosystem (https://github.com/NixOS/nix-book)
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