Part of the excellent "nix pills" guide on why things are the way they are in Nix, and why this tool was created.
The whole series is a pretty easy evening read if you have experience in functional languages (like haskell), and really helps you appreciate what nix is doing.
One of my main reservations about Nix and introducing it at work is basically requiring that other developers wrap their minds around functional concepts like partial application.
This might just be an imagined problem, but not one I want to spend cycles explaining to the higher-ups
Part of the excellent "nix pills" guide on why things are the way they are in Nix, and why this tool was created.
The whole series is a pretty easy evening read if you have experience in functional languages (like haskell), and really helps you appreciate what nix is doing.
One of my main reservations about Nix and introducing it at work is basically requiring that other developers wrap their minds around functional concepts like partial application.
This might just be an imagined problem, but not one I want to spend cycles explaining to the higher-ups