Nixpkgs for the Front End Impaired (fzakaria.com)

26 points by surprisetalk 3 days ago

tom_alexander 19 minutes ago

> Ask nixpkgs a question in a loop. Interrogate and explore nixpkgs in a REPL

  nix repl --expr 'builtins.getFlake "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable"'

  nix-repl> builtins.filter (name: lib.licenses."${name}" ? spdxId && lib.strings.hasPrefix "GPL" lib.licenses."${name}".spdxId) (builtins.attrNames lib.licenses)
  [
    "gpl1Only"
    "gpl1Plus"
    "gpl2"
    "gpl2Only"
    "gpl2Plus"
    "gpl3"
    "gpl3Only"
    "gpl3Plus"
  ]

boredatoms 44 minutes ago

Is there a nix-language learning book out there? Last I looked it was pretty difficult to get learning material

easygenes an hour ago

Please at least add "(Nix transpliled to typescript)" to the title so it's clear what we get.

lorecoeur 2 hours ago

Funnily enough, it might very well be a morale failure. Just not a moral one.

__MatrixMan__ 2 hours ago