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3 Sep 2024
@emilazy:matrix.orgemily(and I wouldn't recommend trying to learn Haskell for this either)13:41:45
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I think trying to learn ML will probably make things more confusing rather than less :)
so what would you recommend?
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@alpha.404:matrix.orgalpha.404 it is indeed confusing for someone who is having its first approach to ML languages 13:13:49
@alpha.404:matrix.orgalpha.404* it is indeed confusing for someone who is having its first approach to ML languages just to learn Nix13:14:02
@emilazy:matrix.orgemilywell, ML brings in a pretty complex type system that has no relevance to Nix, and ML doesn't teach you about laziness at all which is most of the non-syntactic reasons why Nix is more confusing than Python or JavaScript or whatever15:41:13
@emilazy:matrix.orgemilynot sure if there really is another language I'd say helps learn Nix, because Nix is so idiosyncratic. Haskell at least teaches the laziness, but I think learning Haskell to grok laziness is harder than just grokking laziness with Nix itself15:41:55
@emilazy:matrix.orgemilyI'm not sure what tutorials are good for the Nix language itself because I'm enough of a PL nerd that I never really needed one. do the Nix Pills cover the language?15:42:13
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5 Sep 2024
@infinisil:matrix.orginfinisil emily: https://nix.dev/tutorials/nix-language 04:07:05
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