Principal Skinner on Immutable Distros
Principal Skinner on Immutable Distros
Am I out of touch?
No, it's the forward-thinking generation of software engineers that want elegant, reliable, declarative systems that are wrong.
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Which declarative systems exist besides nix? Don't say ansible. It's barely declarative.
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GUIX for one.
GUIX is to NixOS what Gentoo or Manjaro are to Arch.
I’ll probably try it someday when I get bored enough of systemd.
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Gentoo or Manjaro are to Arch? What do you mean? Those two are very different from each other especially in their relationships to Arch.
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Duly noted. I DO NOT use Arch, btw. ;)
What I meant to try and say is that GUIX is like NixOS for Chad programmers.
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GUIX is a good example.
Don't say ansible. It's barely declarative.
True, but it uses a common language in its Playbooks, which is a significant advantage. I'd like nix if I didn't need to use nix the language. It's great concept and the portability is awesome.
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BlendOS is a declarative Arch.
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