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A (more or less) one page introduction to Nix, the language.

10 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 3 stories, 7 comments · first 2020-01-18 · latest 2024-04-07

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    Nix – A One Pager
    story by peter_d_sherman · 2024-04-07 · 40 comments
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    Nix Lang in One Page
    story by xrd · 2023-10-13 · 0 comments
  3. …trigger a rebuild, which means either a redownload from the binary cache or a recompilation. [0] https://github.com/tazjin/nix-1p [1] https://nixos.org/guides/nix-pills [2] https://github.com/thiagokokada/nix-alien
    comment by pongo1231 · 2022-12-01 · in NixOS 22.11 “Raccoon”
  4. …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…
    comment by pongo1231 · 2022-07-29 · in Why the Windows Registry sucks technically (2010)
  5. …future. This 1 page intro to the nix language was all I needed to get comfortable with it too: https://github.com/tazjin/nix-1p It's really a pretty simple data-oriented language when you get down to it.
    comment by qbasic_forever · 2022-07-20 · in About using Nix in my development workflow
  6. I wrote a Nix language tutorial a while ago and people keep telling me it works for them: https://github.com/tazjin/nix-1p
    comment by tazjin · 2022-02-19 · in Nix: An idea whose time has come
  7. …and especially in unpaid open-source projects it's difficult to keep up the motivation for it. [0]: https://github.com/tazjin/nix-1p
    comment by tazjin · 2022-01-24 · in The Curse of NixOS
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    Nix – A One Pager
    story by ingve · 2021-12-05 · 0 comments
  9. …gotten the feedback that it has helped a lot of people - maybe it'd clear something up for you: https://github.com/tazjin/nix-1p
    comment by tazjin · 2021-04-09 · in Nix is the ultimate DevOps toolkit
  10. …to deal with namespaces (which also has drawbacks) and instead modifying one large expression. [0]: https://github.com/tazjin/nix-1p
    comment by tazjin · 2020-01-18 · in ANSI Common Lisp (1995)