Comment by nurettin
Comment by nurettin 2 months ago
It is the name of a feature in Nix. This is as obfuscated as calling a rock a rock.
Comment by nurettin 2 months ago
It is the name of a feature in Nix. This is as obfuscated as calling a rock a rock.
I mean it has variable names, configurations, documentation, a file extension and lots of code and a history behind it, so the strange thing to me is trying to suggest a replacement phrase as if you don't know what it is, acting like it's some high-brow language used in a blog to look smart, complaining about how this makes it less accessible (paraphrasing a little), then rolling back saying you dabbled in Nix and acting like you know what it is.
But then, you do you.
The part you seem to deliberately miss is that what is obvious to people deeply invested in Nix is not obvious to anyone else.
I for one can't trace the train of thought that is going from "intermediate build artifact" and somehow arrives at "derivation".
I found out just enough about Nix to reject it. My take is still informed, I simply didn't buy its pitch.
I geniunely thought you knew nothing about derivations and were criticizing the blogger for writing the term in their blog, not the term standard to Nix itself. Which is just as weird to me as complaining about std::string, well why call it a string? it is obviously text!
Strange thing to say but you do you.
I tried to dabble in Nix several times and the term never stuck.
I suppose for you it's impossible to accept that the term is just bad and unintuitive. And other comments here say the same.