It sounds funny but it’s not an uncommon phrase.

I’d say it’s definitely worth it. I don’t actually use nixos itself, but I do use nix a lot. I have everything I need for work in a home manager configuration, so I can literally just install nix and load up my config and have all programs and configuration of said programs installed and ready to go (on any UNIX system). I started doing this since changing jobs means a new machine, and I got really tired of all of the inconsistencies between machines when bringing over my dotfiles, and having to install a bunch of packages I use every time I changed jobs.

I do want to make the switch from Arch to nixos on my personal machine eventually too, but I hardly spend any time on computers outside of work these days, unfortunately. But the great thing is that my home manager configuration can pretty easily slide right into a nixos configuration, which is what many people do.

Yeah it’s pretty great, especially when so many people are so quick to assume that OOP is essential for managing complexity.

OOP is the poster child for solving the problems that it creates itself.

The similarities are superficial at best. The only thing similar is that it uses braces for attribute sets (objects) and square brackets for lists. And I guess quotes for strings.

But otherwise it’s a full (functional) programming language, with functions, variable bindings, etc.

Flakes aren’t perfect, but they are really good for ensuring that you have completely reproducible builds since the version used for every dependency is pinned.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_language

HTML is famously known for not being a regular language. An explanation isn’t required, you can find many formal proofs online (indeed, a junior year CS student should be able to write a proof after their DS/algo/automata classes).

This very old post is funny because despite it being so famously known as being irregular, stack overflow questions kept popping up asking how to use regular expressions to parse HTML, which you can’t do.

I’ve yet to find games I can’t play on Linux these days.