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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/src/language/index.md | 40 | ||||
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diff --git a/doc/manual/src/SUMMARY.md.in b/doc/manual/src/SUMMARY.md.in index 8fbb59716..9b66ec3db 100644 --- a/doc/manual/src/SUMMARY.md.in +++ b/doc/manual/src/SUMMARY.md.in @@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ - [CLI guideline](contributing/cli-guideline.md) - [Release Notes](release-notes/release-notes.md) - [Release X.Y (202?-??-??)](release-notes/rl-next.md) + - [Release 2.11 (2022-08-25)](release-notes/rl-2.11.md) - [Release 2.10 (2022-07-11)](release-notes/rl-2.10.md) - [Release 2.9 (2022-05-30)](release-notes/rl-2.9.md) - [Release 2.8 (2022-04-19)](release-notes/rl-2.8.md) diff --git a/doc/manual/src/language/index.md b/doc/manual/src/language/index.md index c4b3abf75..a4b402f8b 100644 --- a/doc/manual/src/language/index.md +++ b/doc/manual/src/language/index.md @@ -1,13 +1,33 @@ # Nix Language -The Nix language is a pure, lazy, functional language. Purity -means that operations in the language don't have side-effects (for -instance, there is no variable assignment). Laziness means that -arguments to functions are evaluated only when they are needed. -Functional means that functions are “normal” values that can be passed -around and manipulated in interesting ways. The language is not a -full-featured, general purpose language. Its main job is to describe -packages, compositions of packages, and the variability within packages. - -This section presents the various features of the language. +The Nix language is + +- *domain-specific* + + It only exists for the Nix package manager: + to describe packages and configurations as well as their variants and compositions. + It is not intended for general purpose use. + +- *declarative* + + There is no notion of executing sequential steps. + Dependencies between operations are established only through data. + +- *pure* + + Values cannot change during computation. + Functions always produce the same output if their input does not change. + +- *functional* + + Functions are like any other value. + Functions can be assigned to names, taken as arguments, or returned by functions. + +- *lazy* + + Expressions are only evaluated when their value is needed. + +- *dynamically typed* + + Type errors are only detected when expressions are evaluated. diff --git a/doc/manual/src/release-notes/rl-2.11.md b/doc/manual/src/release-notes/rl-2.11.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..b322a4e5e --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/manual/src/release-notes/rl-2.11.md @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +# Release 2.11 (2022-08-24) + +* `nix copy` now copies the store paths in parallel as much as possible (again). + This doesn't apply for the `daemon` and `ssh-ng` stores which copy everything + in one batch to avoid latencies issues. |