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Nix Derivation Madness

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184 points birdculture | 1 comments | 31 Oct 25 14:28 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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amelius ◴[31 Oct 25 17:52 UTC] No.45774752[source]▶
> The road to Nix enlightenment is no joke and full of dragons.

Nix was a great research project. Now is the time to rewrite it from the ground up.

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jbstack ◴[31 Oct 25 18:09 UTC] No.45774922[source]▶
Well, there's Guix as an alternative if you want a similar concept but different implementation philosophy. For me the major disadvantage of Guix is lack of package availability compared to Nix.
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amelius ◴[31 Oct 25 18:10 UTC] No.45774938[source]▶
Isn't there a way to transpile the scripts from Nix to Guix?
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1. Y_Y ◴[31 Oct 25 20:26 UTC] No.45776335{3}[source]▶
It's not to hard to translate manually, but since the dependency tree is massive it doesn't seem feasible to do wholesale.