avakand

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It seems that McDonald's closed stores that operated directly under their control. As a result, only stores in westert part of Russia were closed (in Moscow, Saint-Petersburg). The stores in Siberia (i.e. Novosibirsk) and in Moscow airports continued operating as usual, as they are working under franchaising. Even the mobile app continued functioning.

So not much is going to change, I think. Hell, McDonalds is even open in DNR/LNR "republics" under the name "DonMac".

Comment · 4 years ago

>That is not to say there are no significant problems with it: the lack of static typing coupled with low runtime performance and bad error messages and debugging support means tracking down more complicated errors can be a pain and the laziness can further compound this.

Some of this problems can be aleviated with good IDE support or language server.

Comment · 4 years ago

https://github.com/divnix/devos is something close to a framework.

I agree that language is too simple. Also I think some degree of IDE / language server support would help a lot. Refactoring modules, writing and importing custom functions was a bad experience for me - some arcane stacktraces were common, using repl was too verbose and with no clear way to debug whole configuration.

Comment · 4 years ago

I was using flakes, yes. I remember seeing nix-diff, but most of the time nixos-rebuild dry-build was enough. Sometimes dry build was failing with error, but switching or activating it ran without errors. Never figured out what was wrong :(

Comment · 4 years ago

I tried using NixOS on a laptop for a month and switched back to Arch a couple of months ago. It was an interesting experience - I never used functional programming language before, but nix was pretty ok as a configuration language. It looks like funny version of JSON with functions.

Debugging it was a real pain though - I was trying to write (or copy from someone else config) a function to recursively import all modules from a folder and the error messages were hard to understand with stacktraces ending somewhere deep in standard library.

The other problem was with nixpkgs, i.e. I haven't found a clear list of packages that were going to be updated. Jetbrains IDEA was updating very slowly and when I wanted to pin a version of it simply overriding version variable in the overlay was not enough - there were also some other linked variables. Emacs package from custom overlay constantly tried to compile itself, requiring me to check build status on hydra build system.

In the end I decided that it's not really worth it. I don't have many systems and services to manage and for a raspberry pi and a vps multiple docker-compose.yaml files in git repo is enough. I think Henrik Lissner (author of Doom Emacs) wrote a really good piece about why someone should choose to use NixOS - https://github.com/hlissner/dotfiles#frequently-asked-questi...

Comment · 5 years ago