Learn Nix Programming

*A comprehensive, beginner-friendly guide to learning the Nix language form the ground up down to last details *

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🚀 Getting Started

This repository is intended to give beginners and intermediate programmers familirity to Nix programming in indepth way, documentation is heavily packed explaining every single steps

Core fundamentals & Advanced concepts

Getting Started

• Writing first program, Hello world (covered in ch00)

Core Concepts

• Data types (covered in ch01)

Data Structures

• Sets (covered in ch02)
• Lists (covered in ch03)

Functional Programming

• Functions - Extended (covered in ch04)

Lazy & Strict evaluations

• Lazy Evaluation (covered in ch05)

Advanced Features

• Set attribute selection, inheritance and merging (covered in ch06)
• Working with files & paths (covered in ch07)
• Debugging & Tracing (covered in ch08)

Ecosystem Integration

• Working with common libraries (covered in ch09)
• Working with Module system utilities (covered in ch10)
• Understanding function signatures (covered in ch11)

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🛠 Practical Usage

• File System Operations
• Lazy Evaluation Patterns
• Debugging Techniques

Future Content Preview

• Derivation Patterns
• Working with Nix flakes
• NixOS Module System
• Advanced Package Composition
• Performance Optimization
• Real-world Project Templates

💡 Why This Guide?

Learning Path

focuses on practical understanding over theoretical perfection:

• Learn essential concepts with clear examples
• Build skills progressively
• Avoid common pitfalls
• Learn what you'll actually use

# official docs & other resources 
recursive_learning = throw "confusion";

# this repo focuses on 
learning_path = lib.foldl (acc: x -> acc + x) 0 [
  "clarity"
  "examples"
  "practicality"
];

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