miniblog.

The most common selling point I hear for Nix is having a list of all the packages you need. On a traditional Linux distro, I just install things and forget about them. A curated, commented list would certainly be handy when I have a new system.

I'm designing a programming language and trying to decide the type of `let x = 1;`. Should it be Unit or Int? Advantage of Int: really convenient when evaluating snippets in a REPL. Advantage of Unit: It's much less confusing when type inference runs on an incomplete function.

I've been learning some Common Lisp by writing some simple JSON munging programs. I'm sure it's not best practice — I should probably deserialise to CLOS automatically — but it's a nice way to get comfortable with the basics. It feels weird deliberately ignoring helpers though.