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
See also: https://github.com/glistix/glistix