My Opinionated Nix Style

So… I’ve been using Nix for a while.

Over time, I’ve tried a couple of different styles, from “everything is single lines”, which was… intense and verbose and hard to organize, to what I use now - Everything is nested.

Instead of

  thing.thing.thing.thing.value = "whosawhatsit";

I’ve found it a lot more productive to do

thing = { 
  thing = {
    thing = {
      thing = { 
        value = "whosawhatsit";
      };
    };
  };
};

Sure, it uses more lines, but honestly? Way easier to reason about, especially in bigger files.

Honestly that’s about it. Oh and learn to use Flakes! They’re amazing!