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Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Jörg Thalheim	ed3e2a71ea	Merge pull request #12994 from fricklerhandwerk/reword-derivation ... glossary: re-introduce "derivation"	2025-05-26 14:58:52 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin	8db8371a48	glossary: re-introduce "derivation" ... The "derivation" is one of the key concepts and captures the most distinctive aspect of Nix: that we work with a certain type data (linked files) in a certain manner (using pure functions). Here we finally arrange all the important pieces to show how they belong together, while referring to the respective reference documentation for details. This change also unbreaks downstream links to `//glossary#gloss-derivation`, which had been broken by removing the glossary entry	2025-04-11 19:47:28 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin	bf65bc7eb7	Nix language reference: highlight characteristic features ... Nix shipping with Yet Another Programming Language is often questioned among beginners. This change highlights distinctive aspects of the Nix language to ease the learning curve and better orient readers around what really matters for using Nix. Since it's on topic, this change also polishes the wording on the motivation for string contexts.	2025-04-10 23:50:55 +02:00
John Ericson	eb7d7780b1	Rename doc/manual{src -> source} ... This is needed to avoid this https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/13774 when we go back to making our subproject directory `src`.	2024-10-14 11:21:24 -04:00

Renamed from doc/manual/src/language/index.md (Browse further)