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* [https://nix.dev/tutorials/nix-language Nix language basics] is a practical tutorial to reading the Nix language. | * [https://nix.dev/tutorials/nix-language Nix language basics] is a practical tutorial to reading the Nix language. | ||
* [https://nixcademy.com/posts/what-you-need-to-know-about-laziness/ What You Need to Know About Lazy Evaluation in Nix, Nixcademy] teaches laziness, fixed-point recursion and Nixpkgs overlays. | |||
* [https://github.com/tazjin/nix-1p Nix - A One Pager] provides a brief overview of language constructs | * [https://github.com/tazjin/nix-1p Nix - A One Pager] provides a brief overview of language constructs | ||
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- The Nix manual provides a reference of the language. All language constructs you may use are defined there, together with code snippets.
- Nix language basics is a practical tutorial to reading the Nix language.
- What You Need to Know About Lazy Evaluation in Nix, Nixcademy teaches laziness, fixed-point recursion and Nixpkgs overlays.
- Nix - A One Pager provides a brief overview of language constructs
- Nix by example is a step-by-step tutorial.
- The Nix Tour is an interactive tour that uses the actual package manager to learn you the language by example, in the browser.
- Scrive Nix Workshop is a series of examples demonstrating language features, mostly without comments or further explanations.
- Learn X in Y minutes is brief listing of Nix syntax, types, operations, etc.