As perl is a language that comes baked in the system, should I learn Perl as someone who uses NixOS as a daily driver? What are the use cases of this languages in NixOS or linux in general, if at all? Do you recommend to learn any other language if not this?
Thanks for the replies. I greatly appreciate each of your responses. Have a good day/night.
What do you mean by ābaked in the systemā? Do you mean that your system retains references to it in the /nix/store? Eitherway, IIRC there is an effort to eliminate the usage of Perl in the build closure of the NixOS systems, and in scripts of all kinds produced by, and maintained in Nixpkgs.
You do not need to learn perl unless youāre making a PR for a perl script, same as most other languages. You should learn nix and bash, anything else isnāt strictly necessary.
In fact thereās a NixOS module you can use to make sure all the perl stuff is disabled.
Iām currently learning Nix. I have to say, it is ridiculously simpleā¦so far. Iāve read the Nix.dev getting started part and am in the middle of doing āa tour of nixā exercises. But for some reason, it feels like iām missing something, idk what. What would be your recommendations or advice?
Oh btw, I have prior experience programming in C, CPP, Java.
Make nixpkgs PRs and read the nixpkgs manual, youāll learn quickly due to all the feedback.