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Nixpkgs for the Front End Impaired

27 points by surprisetalk - 5 comments

tom_alexander [3 hidden]5 mins 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 [3 hidden]5 mins ago

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

easygenes [3 hidden]5 mins ago

Please at least add "(Nix transpliled to typescript)" to the title so it's clear what we get.

lorecoeur [3 hidden]5 mins ago

Funnily enough, it might very well be a morale failure. Just not a moral one.

__MatrixMan__ [3 hidden]5 mins ago