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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. c0balt ◴[01 Nov 25 02:08 UTC] No.45778708{3}[source]▶
That would be possible. The main problem there is that nixpkgs, the package repository one would want to translate, uses a good chunk of specialized build infrastructure (parts in nix, some in rust/Perl/Python) that is designed for nix (the package manger).

Some other semi-specific parts, like stdenv bootstrapping, are also a bit more complex than just some nix build instructions.