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| alpha.404 | hello, I'm new in the Nix community. I'm watching YouTube tutorials and the documentaion but it's still pretty confusing, any resources in particular which I should check out? Any tips for learning?
Thanks in advance | 11:26:11 |
| alpha.404 | * hello, I'm new in the Nix community. I'm watching YouTube tutorials and the documentation but it's still pretty confusing, any resources in particular which I should check out? Any tips for learning?
Thanks in advance | 11:26:21 |
 palo | Just play around, I always recommend starting with the nixos vm, you can download from the page and play around with that. | 11:59:49 |
 fgaz | In reply to @alpha.404:matrix.org
hello, I'm new in the Nix community. I'm watching YouTube tutorials and the documentation but it's still pretty confusing, any resources in particular which I should check out? Any tips for learning?
Thanks in advance unless you are referring specifically to the programming language, you should ask in #users:nixos.org | 12:02:46 |
| alpha.404 | In reply to @fgaz:matrix.org
unless you are referring specifically to the programming language, you should ask in #users:nixos.org Well, that is the part where I'm most confused actually. | 12:13:31 |
| fgaz | In reply to @alpha.404:matrix.org
Well, that is the part where I'm most confused actually. Are you familiar with functional languages, in particular ML-style ones? | 12:15:24 |
| alpha.404 | In reply to @fgaz:matrix.org
Are you familiar with functional languages, in particular ML-style ones? No, no experience with them. | 12:18:52 |
| alpha.404 | I mean, I did learn some C#, C++, Python and JavaScript in the past, but never went too deep. | 12:22:35 |
| alpha.404 | * I mean, I did learn some C#, C++, Python and JavaScript in the past, but never went too deep, and I remember very vaguely. My objective is primarily to manage my NixOS PC, but once I got to more advanced topics like flakes I knew I had to learn the Nix language. | 12:23:50 |
| fgaz | Well, if you like to learn and have the time, learning the basics of something like standard ml would help a lot since there's a lot of material about it and it translates pretty well to Nix | 12:26:33 |
| fgaz | (Nix is basically JSON + ML with dynamic types) | 12:26:55 |
| fgaz | Otherwise, have a look at https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Nix_Language:_Learning_resources | 12:27:07 |
| fgaz | In particular https://nix.dev/tutorials/nix-language | 12:27:15 |
| alpha.404 | In reply to @fgaz:matrix.org
(Nix is basically JSON + ML with dynamic types) Oh, okay, then I think I'm going to take a quick to ML first, thanks for the tip! | 12:27:46 |
| alpha.404 | * Oh, okay, then I think I'm going to take a quick look to ML first, thanks for the tip! | 12:27:54 |
| alpha.404 | and thanks for the links too. | 12:28:14 |
| alpha.404 | * Oh, okay, then I think I'm going to take a quick look to SML first, thanks for the tip! | 12:29:06 |
 emily | In reply to @alpha.404:matrix.org
Oh, okay, then I think I'm going to take a quick look to SML first, thanks for the tip! I think trying to learn ML will probably make things more confusing rather than less :) | 13:40:50 |
| emily | (it's a beautiful language, but it's much more complex than Nix) | 13:40:55 |
| emily | if you think of Nix as JSON with functions, you won't be too far off | 13:41:20 |
| emily | the big mind-bending thing that we use a lot is that Nix uses lazy evaluation, but that's like Haskell rather than ML | 13:41:36 |
