Nix and Guix look like rival ecosystems, but under the hood they’re the same “Input Output Machine”.
Nix & NixOS | Declarative builds and deployments
Nix is a tool that takes a unique approach to package management and system configuration. Learn how to make reproducible, declarative and reliable systems.
I've gone full Nix: Proxmox to NixOS + Incus | Bas Nijholt
After years of running a Proxmox cluster, I migrated my entire homelab to NixOS with Incus. I explain the philosophical friction of imperative 'appliance' OSs vs declarative hosts, share how I migrated my LXC/VM workloads, and why it is the perfect infrastructure to manage using AI agents.
GNU Guix transactional package manager and distribution — GNU Guix
Guix is a distribution of the GNU operating system. Guix is technology that respects the freedom of computer users. You are free to run the system for any purpose, study how it works, improve it, and share it with the whole world.
the world hasn’t figured out yet that you can literally just fix everything with a Nix overlay
There are many things that are uncertain in our industry right now, but one thing I am certain about, and have been for almost 13 years, is that Nix is a terrible programming language. I remember when I first learned it, it felt like pushing shit uphill. The learning cliff
Declarative Server with NixOS: A Reproducible Infrastructure | Mustafa Erbay
A technical guide exploring how to create a declarative server configuration with NixOS, covering reproducibility and rollback processes.
Omnix
Omnix aims to supplement the Nix CLI to improve developer experience. The project is developed on Github.
Build Reproducible Analytical Pipelines with Nix
Streamlines the creation of reproducible analytical pipelines using default.nix expressions generated via the rix package for reproducibility. Define derivations in R, Python or Julia, chain them into a composition of pure functions and build the resulting pipeline using Nix as the underlying end-to-end build tool. Functions to plot the pipeline as a directed acyclic graph are included, as well as functions to load and inspect intermediary results for interactive analysis. User experience heavily inspired by the targets package.
xymostech/XymosTeX
A re-implementation of TeX in Rust to help me understand how it works and to eventually provide a debugging interface
Towards a Better GUI Programming Benchmark | HackerNoon
GUI <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/programming" target="_blank">programming</a> is <a href="https://medium.com/@eugenkiss/challenges-in-gui-programming-65d360466e3f" target="_blank">challenging</a>. We strive to find better ways to program GUIs and we do make progress. The fact that countless GUI toolkits with different ways to develop GUIs exist indicates that the road ahead is still long. If only there was a benchmark to compare GUI programs with one another. Then identifying good ideas would become much easier.
