2022-12-25 09:55:30 +00:00
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# Journal on development
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This contains information dump to record thoughts as I design this repo
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## Nix as first-class citizen instead of native config
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- Nix can export JSON and other object serialization formats
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- Still allows native config, so that Neovim, for example, which uses Turing-complete
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config language, to make full use of its native LSP.
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## Design pattern emerges from unstructured code
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### Modules
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- Main thing for the first big refactor of codebase
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- nixpkgs and home-manager has their own interface for modules
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- The main benefit is to provide (runtime) type-safety on options, along with
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documentations and defaults
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## Nitpicky details
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### `nativeBuildInputs` vs `buildInputs`
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- `nativeBuildInputs` is available **before** `buildInputs`.
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- `nativeBuildInputs` is supposed to be built by a deployment machine (not target)
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- `buildInputs` gives you access during runtime (if the package goes path build filter)
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- `nativeBulidInputs` gives you access to packages during build time
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- `mkShell` doesn't care about `packages`, `nativeBuildInputs`, `buildInputs`
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