@onlinepersona@programming.dev , this could be really useful for advancing programmatic mutation of pre-existing nix config files using graphical installers and user administ ration tools, like with SnowflakeOS:
Wow, that’s awesome. Hopefully that can breathe some new life into SnowflakeOS! My attempts at manipulating nix code went through a nix parser that I can’t remember the name of. That’s when I found (or came up with? dunno) the
importJsonfunction. But this could be cleaner and more reviewable + definitely allows for things like function calls to take advantage of the “JSON on steroids” aspect the author mentioned.Thanks for sharing 🙏
What I’m really excited about is automatically editing Nixpkgs
metaattrs, e.g. to implement https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/blob/master/rfcs/0180-broken-package-removal.md
Very cool
