| 10 Apr 2026 |
 K900 | Arguably the closest comparison would be tools like Bazel | 16:25:55 |
 Display Name | What bazel? | 16:26:09 |
| K900 | Google's meta-buildsystem | 16:26:21 |
| K900 | Anyway, most of the time when you're dealing with Nix (or Lix), you'll be using nixpkgs, which is a big monorepository of package definitions for all kinds of things | 16:26:50 |
| K900 | Which does include compilers | 16:26:56 |
| K900 | Conceptually Nix (and Lix) can work on Alpine, but the official installer won't, as it's built for glibc, and Alpine uses musl | 16:27:24 |
| K900 | And I don't think we have prebuilt musl binaries? | 16:27:40 |
| K900 | (unless we do and I missed it) | 16:27:44 |
 QuadRadical (Ping) | i think alpine has nix packaged | 16:27:58 |
| Display Name | Thanks, may I ask is guide on nix good enough for learning nix | 16:28:24 |
| QuadRadical (Ping) | so you can apk install nix | 16:28:03 |
| K900 | What is "guide on nix"? | 16:28:31 |
| QuadRadical (Ping) | hmm maybe not | 16:28:09 |
| QuadRadical (Ping) | let me check | 16:28:10 |
| Display Name | * | 16:28:40 |
| QuadRadical (Ping) | I think they want a guide on how to usenix | 16:28:53 |
| Display Name | I remember from iirc determinate systems had a guide | 16:28:55 |
| QuadRadical (Ping) | * I think they want a guide on how to use nix | 16:28:56 |
| K900 | Do you mean zero-to-nix? | 16:29:08 |
| QuadRadical (Ping) | yeah, it does, you can sudo apk add nix | 16:29:06 |
| K900 | It's mostly decent but also does some things I don't agree with | 16:29:21 |
| QuadRadical (Ping) | so you can apk add nix | 16:29:09 |
| K900 | But mostly decent | 16:29:23 |
| Display Name | I think | 16:29:29 |
| Display Name | What guide do you prefer? | 16:29:41 |
| K900 | Honestly, I don't think any of the existing guides are great | 16:29:58 |
| K900 | Most of them are OK | 16:30:04 |
| K900 | None of them are very good | 16:30:11 |
| Display Name | Okay, so then I learn nix or lix? | 16:30:23 |
| QuadRadical (Ping) | They are very similar | 16:30:38 |
