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guix
Read-only mirror of GNU Guix — pull requests are ignored, see https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/en/guix.html#Submitting-Patches instead (by guix-mirror)
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The Most Elegant Configuration Language
You might be interested in nickel (https://nickel-lang.org/), which is a modern take on configuration management based on the experience of Nix/NixOS configurations: purely functional configuration, built-in validation (types & contracts), reusable (functions, modules, defaults), and in addition exports to Yaml, Json, etc.
To integrate nickel with nix, see how organist (https://github.com/nickel-lang/organist) does DevShell management.
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Nickel Modules
I think the answer is yes and no. As a language (and as far as tooling is involved), I think Nickel is entirely suitable to fill the same role as the Nix language (maybe at the same scale as Nixpkgs the performance will need some work, but that's it).
Unfortunately, being a Nix replacement involves much more than just being a good language for configuration. It requires to interact tightly with all the existing Nix code that has been produced (basically, Nixpkgs). This is the hard part, which isn't there yet. Some design document that was started a long time ago can give you more details: https://github.com/tweag/nickel/pull/693.
The best current take is organist (https://github.com/nickel-lang/organist), which is much more limited in scope (basically development shell), but has some form of interaction with Nix and Nixpkgs, albeit limited. I think the recent development around json-schema-to-nickel and the availability of JSON schemas for NixOS modules (as mentioned at the end of the post) might make it realistic to write boring NixOS configs in Nickel (and have the nice in-LSP validation), but we haven't had the time to try this combination yet.
- Show HN: Flake schemas – teaching Nix about your flake outputs
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nickel-lang/organist is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of organist is NCL.
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