nixos

46 readers

1 users here now

All about NixOS - https://nixos.org/

founded 4 years ago

What do you dislike about Nix/NixOS? (lemmy.opensupply.space)

submitted 1 year ago by nyl@lemmy.opensupply.space to c/nixos@lemmy.ml

34 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Could be areas of improvement as well

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It's accumulated a lot of cruft over its >20 years of existence. Especially the language, which can't be changed due to otherwise breaking backwards compatibility.

[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's Nickel which is sort of Nix expression language 2.0 but, honestly, the Nix expression language is perfectly adequate for what it needs to do.

Not to say it couldn't be better I wouldn't put it inn any top 10 of what is holding Nix back.

[–] ck_@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

It has one major advantage over Nix though: it comes with a built in code formatter!

[–] ck_@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

There are attempts to get a handle on that

https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/137