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I want to thank Tom for letting me have this awesome OfficeHours experience.
Coming from ops background and having little knowledge of languages, especially functional programming, I’ve been struggling to get past this learning curve of nix.
Still am, however I am very happy that in this short hour we managed to go through:

  • Talk about flakes. The problems it’s trying to solve. Benefits of using it.
  • Helped me better understand lib.mkOption. How to use it when creating variables. (And I thought I knew what I was doing.:sweat_smile:)
  • Talked about IaaS and tools(NixOps deploy-rs morph krops) available to manage it.
  • Learned about a builtins.trace I wish I knew at the time I picked up learning nix.
  • Learned about existing matrix community channel.
  • Presented some fancy stats about nix having 60+ packages and surpassing AUR. Lost the link.

Honestly as I saw Tom explaining I wanted to stop him at every other sentence and try to expand on things. I’ve got enough homework to work on.

Thank you so much for your time and this initiative! I did miss 2 hours of my OfficeHours that I had to catch up on, therefore I was unable to checkout General Nix Office Hours on jitsy but I hope there will be more of those in the future!

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