Nixpkgs for the Front End Impaired

(fzakaria.com)

28 points | by surprisetalk 3 days ago ago

5 comments

  • tom_alexander an hour 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 an hour ago

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

  • easygenes 2 hours 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