Is there good explanation anywhere of the syntax of those files? I tried getting into nix multiple times and was always put off by the lack of understandability of this.
An object (called attrset in nix):
{ a = 3; b = 4; }
[ 1 2 3 4 ];
"hello"
''
multine
string
''
a: b: a + b;
{ a, b }: a + b;
One special type is the path, which has it's own literal that starts with `./`
To load a file, the `import` keyword is being used. In most cases the whole file is a big lambda function, which gets returned by the import.
Once you know that you can start reading nixpkgs and learn about the building blocks to constructs packages.
{
a = {
b = {
c = 3;
};
};
}
{
a.b.c = 3;
}
services.openssh.enable = true;
Also includes links to the only other resources I found.