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Is it possible to learn this power?
Irritate the core maintainers and they will teach you just like Mr Miyagi. /s
Honestly, contributing to nixpkgs isn't that hard. You just have to refer other expression files. This guide is probably one of the most well-written guides I've come across.
Just a word of advice, while cloning NixOS/nixpkgs, set
--depthto somewhere between 1 to 10. It's a pretty large repository, and you just want to have the last ten git logs at most.Side note, I wish yesterday me had read this before cloning the full 4 gigs lol
As someone who struggled quite a bit to learn Nix, I'd say start small. Install Nix the package manager on any old distro you're familiar with and play with standalone Home Manager. Enable one program here and there, have it manage your shells and CLI apps, set environment variables and write files. It's something you can immediately see the effects of and feels pretty rewarding, so I think it's a great place to start.
I also happened upon this video series a few days ago and it's a great resource, easy to parse and walks you through not only the basics but how to look around and investigate in the REPL when you want to figure something out.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
this video series
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