cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/15781466

Am I out of touch?

No, it’s the forward-thinking generation of software engineers that want elegant, reliable, declarative systems that are wrong.

  • lemmyvore
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    1 month ago

    But an immutable distro is not necessarily declarative, and the other way around.

    Why lump them together?

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      1 month ago

      I’m guessing this refers to the not entirely separate groups of Nix(OS), Haskell, XMonad fans

    • marcos@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      an immutable distro is not necessarily declarative

      It is necessarily so. You can’t configure an immutable distro by a sequence of mutations.

      But yes, the other way around is quite possible.