domenkozar

We know documentation is too scattered and incomplete.

I've started https://nix.dev about a year ago to provide a resource for newcomers.

I'm working on comprehensive language tutorial next, but I'm mostly interested what you'd like to learn when getting started.

Can you try https://nix.dev and let me know what's missing?

There's goes my week changing all tutorial to use flakes at https://nix.dev/

That's the goal of https://nix.dev, you can subscribe for future updates!

Could you say more what's foreign?

Still for reproducibility, it's best to build container images with Nix: https://nix.dev/tutorials/building-and-running-docker-images

There is data-science channel on Matrix and Discord!

That's the maximum and for some reason they always take that long.

For no competition I'm not sure, but that would help.

I realize that the current naming is confusing, so while writing a tutorial I opened https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/126949 that hopefully gets us to a naming scheme that's more consistent with the triplets in cross compilation world.

As for the binaries, you need to compile them once and then you can use http://cachix.org/ for free to cache them.

That's going to be improved once Nix 2.4 comes out.

Another few weeks to get all installer fixes out.

We've just made Nix support Apple Silicon natively!

I've also been working on tutorials for beginners at https://nix.dev, for example how to set up declarative developer environments.

It's interesting since from https://github.com/sponsors/frenck#sponsors he pitches:

> Are you enjoying my work? And want to support me in my effort helping the world to become a better place by dedicating my time & knowledge to create & innovate open source software solutions. Allowing everybody on this earth the privilege to enjoy those things for free?

Link?

I agree with your reasoning and the reason this is hard to change is similar to Python 2->3 transition.

If it was about 50 users, we could just do it.

Since there are many users, it takes a while to move from one UI to another.

Thanks. I'm looking for feedback on the content - in terms of problems with it and what's missing!

That's the long term plan, once the new command line stabilizes.

That's another problem of documentation.

The correct way is to search for packages as the following: https://nix.dev/tutorials/ad-hoc-developer-environments.html...

And then install via: nix-env -iA attribute-name

New Nix CLI as part of next release fixes that, but it's not out yet.

Do you have some examples of that? Maybe a link to discord discussion?

https://nix.dev/tutorials/deploying-nixos-using-terraform.ht... showcases how you can use terraform to provision things and Nix to describe the machine.

There's also https://terranix.org/ to configure Terraform using Nix.

There's Darwin support in Nix, but it needs to be polished: https://opencollective.com/nix-macos

We've grown a lot in last few years and haven't caught up with the policies. See https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/118661 for details.

Note that those statistics are incorrect, but pushes to master still do happen.

Did you follow the language tutorial in the manual or something else?

What kind of tutorial would you like to read?

I've written a few tutorials at https://nix.dev/, more to come in following months :)

Tutorial on declarative and reproducible developer environments with Nix: https://nix.dev/tutorials/declarative-and-reproducible-devel...

If you're looking to try out Nix, let me know if I something is missing on https://nix.dev/

I'm working on Nix tutorials at https://nix.dev - let me know what's missing :)

Next talk starts at 15 UTC, that is in 2 hours.

I'll be speaking how about how to get Nix to become mainstream.