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Should I use flakes? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by rofoldos@lemm.ee to c/nix@programming.dev

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I'm new to nix, but I really went full beans on it: installed NixOS on my daily and I'm using nix-shell for some projects and yesterday I learned how nix docker images work.

I was actively avoiding flakes because I try never to use unstable/experimental features until they are stabilised so I can rely on them.

Thing is, they seem to be ubiquitous. Their reason to exist makes sense to me and I think I should learn how to use them to fully take advantage of the ecosystem.

My question: is it fairly safe to assume nix flakes won't suddenly break on me? is there any known roadmap to flakes stabilisation?

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[–] rofoldos@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When you say that flakes haven’t “drastically changed”, does it mean no breaking changes at all? only new features?

[–] samae@lemmy.menf.in 2 points 1 year ago

I'll let you compare the nix 2.4 manual page (https://web.archive.org/web/20211201073051/https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/command-ref/new-cli/nix3-flake.html) with the current one (https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/command-ref/new-cli/nix3-flake.html).