There’s this program on nix that lets you type a comma, then any application name that exists anywhere in the Nix repos. It then downloads that app and runs it once, without “installing” it. Sometimes I find myself running something dozens of times this way before I realize it should probably be in my config.

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xyzzy_plugh 4 hours ago | parent [-]

https://github.com/nix-community/comma

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Arcuru 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm not sure I'll ever understand why they replaced their working ~50 line shell script with a Rust program that just shells out to the same nix-* commands. I appreciate that there are some safety benefits, but that program is just not complex enough to benefit.

	▲	rafram an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Because it's "a proper language" [1]. Not to mention webscale! It does seem to do some more complex stuff now that would've been annoying, but not impossible, to write as a shell script. [1]: https://github.com/nix-community/comma/pull/19
	▲	aidenn0 31 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Shell is already memory safe, so there's not even "we replaced C" to lean on.