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1. aredox+q8[view] [source] 2024-04-29 15:35:20
>>elikog+(OP)
The main reason for the persistence of Nix despite its warts and general mess is just "first-mover advantage": it was the first, therefore it has more libraries/packages/development of the ecosystem than the alternatives.

Stop being lazy, go back to engineering first principles and it makes little sense to stay with Nix. Guix or any rewrite as a library in a well-developed language* makes more sense.

*For example, why are Haskellians using Nix so much instead of integrating its concepts into their own tooling?

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2. tripdo+zi[view] [source] 2024-04-29 16:16:50
>>aredox+q8
I think Nix is much simpler and more suited for software packaging than Scheme.
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