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by 123nameuser 505 days ago
Why everything is inflated and bloated? It is foundational to our computer systems.* There is alternative way, functional programming, that is much harder to learn than Object-Oriented, but makes cleaner code without side effects. So Six/NixOS is very promising and going to install it when I have learned Haskell first to understand it's foundations more deeply.

* "Can programming be liberated from the von Neumann style?" https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/359576.359579
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otabdeveloper4 505 days ago
> but makes cleaner code without side effects

No, that is an urban legend.

> when I have learned Haskell first to understand it's foundations more deeply

Nix is nothing like Haskell.

Also, the functional and lazy nature if Nix is not an ideological decision, it's a necessity when you have a giant monorepo config for 200000 packages. (Without laziness you'd have to wait for an hour just to evaluate the config options.)

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123nameuser 505 days ago
Well Haskell was mentioned many times in presentation, sixos is “Gentoo with Haskell instead of Python” https://cfp.cccv.de/media/38c3-community-stages/submissions/...

But thank you for insights, I have learned Haskell basics and in awe already. Maybe "functional code is going to fix the world" not the full truth when I get more experienced ;-)

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