[Nix-dev] NixON initiative

[Anand Patil]

What about using some kind of JSON notation for this? There are some
mismatches between JSON and Nix primitives; but on the other hand JSON is
easy to parse and generate from every language, and many people are
familiar with it.

On Sun, Feb 28, 2016, 9:54 AM deCube.net | Danny Wilson <danny at decube.net>
wrote:

> How about NEON
>
> Nix Expression Object Notation
>
> On 28 feb. 2016, at 15:49, stewart mackenzie <setori88 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Excellent idea, this removes quite a lot of manual steps.
>
> Recently wrote some dirty python scripts to automate the checking and
> replacing of sha256s, this approach would make it trivial, reducing check
> times from about an hour and growing to mere seconds.
>
> Though, I do have a reservation about the name. An unbubbled search for
> NixOS almost always returns a 'did you mean Nixon?' It's infuriating.
> Clojure's equivalent is Edn.
>
> Might I encourage a wilder more adventures ... unambiguous name?
>
> /sjm
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