I'm seriously beginning to question the sanity of relying on #NixOS
The ideas behind Nix and NixOS are very clever and very powerful. And superficially as a distro it's been working quite well.
But the Nix language is one of the most craziest overcomplicated-by-default designs I've ever seen.
It wouldn't be so bad if there was one clear way to do something, but when looking around I typically find half a dozen completely different approaches. I'd practically have to learn *all* of Nix and NixOS just to make sense of it. And that's really frustrating when I just want to, say, get the Rust 1.85 toolchain to build run a little hobby project...
Matthijs De Smedt
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2025-02-27 03:01:38 UTC
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