The main motivation is to get rid of dependencies. It would greatly help in porting Nix to other architectures and systems.
2015-12-31 4:06 GMT-02:00 stewart mackenzie <setor...@gmail.com>: > This is our usage of Rust: https://github.com/fractalide/rustfbp > The nix scripts to build all the rust components with capnproto > dependencies in a deterministic fashion: > https://github.com/fractalide/fractalide > we use nix basically to replace make, it's still a WIP. > > I'm okay which most implementation languages used for nix, including > Perl. I'm merely sharing my opinion on Rust. > Though I would _like_ to see Rust used because of the barrage of > niceties associated with it. > > peace > /sjm > > On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 3:36 PM, Shea Levy <s...@shealevy.com> wrote: >> Nothing's stopping you from starting the conversion. If it's clearly >> better, it will be a lot easier to convince people once you have actual >> code to show. > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev