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Journal on development

This contains information dump to record thoughts as I design this repo

Nix as first-class citizen instead of native config

Nix can export JSON and other object serialization formats
Still allows native config, so that Neovim, for example, which uses Turing-complete config language, to make full use of its native LSP.

Design pattern emerges from unstructured code

Modules

Main thing for the first big refactor of codebase
nixpkgs and home-manager has their own interface for modules
The main benefit is to provide (runtime) type-safety on options, along with documentations and defaults

Nitpicky details

`nativeBuildInputs` vs `buildInputs`

nativeBuildInputs is available before buildInputs.
nativeBuildInputs is supposed to be built by a deployment machine (not target)
buildInputs gives you access during runtime (if the package goes path build filter)
nativeBulidInputs gives you access to packages during build time
mkShell doesn't care about packages, nativeBuildInputs, buildInputs