Hello Nixers,
After a year of hard work, I proudly want to present you NiJS: the asynchronous
package manager.
In NiJS, you can use the more popular, innovating and future proof JavaScript
language to specify package build specifications while still having most of the
useful goodies that Nix h
> http://sandervanderburg.blogspot.com/2014/04/asynchronous-package-management-with.html
> I have discovered that the Nix expression language is complicated and
> difficult to learn. Like Haskell, it has a solid theoretical foundation
> and powerful features (such as laziness), but it's too hard t
On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 10:52:10AM +, Marc Weber wrote:
> Thus eventually its time to think about which information could be
> shared. Who would join a "software version documentation" project
> allowing people to upload "the most recent version of my software is X,
> and it requires Z, FOO, BA
> http://sandervanderburg.blogspot.com/2014/04/asynchronous-package-management-with.html
> I have discovered that the Nix expression language is complicated and
> difficult to learn. Like Haskell, it has a solid theoretical foundation
> and powerful features (such as laziness), but it's too hard t
Hi Sander!
Sander van der Burg - EWI skribis:
> After a year of hard work, I proudly want to present you NiJS: the
> asynchronous package manager.
>
> In NiJS, you can use the more popular, innovating and future proof
> JavaScript language to specify package build specifications while
> still ha
> I would certainly be keen to see a switch from a central nixpkgs repo to a
> system whereby the nix expression comes with the package itself. Yes,
> lots of details to figure out there, but I think it's preferable for a
> number of reasons. Then, obviously, there are central servers where this
>
Hi,
On 01/04/14 12:11, Sander van der Burg - EWI wrote:
> After a year of hard work, I proudly want to present you NiJS: the
> asynchronous
> package manager.
>
> In NiJS, you can use the more popular, innovating and future proof JavaScript
> language to specify package build specifications whi
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Hi Sander!
Sander van der Burg - EWI skribis:
> After a year of hard work, I proudly want to present you N
I think this is the wrong way to go. The bootstrap size for JavaScript is
huge with nodejs depending on the world. Nix is relatively small which is
nice. It's far from optimal though.
Haskell is also huge, but there are a few languages with tiny footprints. I
suggest we look at ash or maybe zsh. I
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 6:18 AM, Shell Turner wrote:
> >
> http://sandervanderburg.blogspot.com/2014/04/asynchronous-package-management-with.html
>
> > I have discovered that the Nix expression language is complicated and
> > difficult to learn. Like Haskell, it has a solid theoretical foundation
Excerpts from Matthew Sackman's message of Tue Apr 01 11:12:32 + 2014:
> I'm guessing that the mechanical "let's attempt to translate
> $language-specific-deps-file into nix" has been tried and found wanting?
> I can see there's the node-packages-generated.nix, and others, but is
> that approac
On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 04:42:50PM +, Marc Weber wrote:
> We should not be against a new option, we should think harder about
> collaborating so that all targets will work - which one is the best fit
> for use cases - future might tell.
Indeed. One of the things that seems (at least to me) wro
Please think the other way round:
- most linux distributions (exceptions LFS I know about) want to install
packages
Some packages (such as gnome) have dependency information, but only
encoded in "configure" scripts or READMEs.
Rubyforge and PyPi (don't know what's current in python communit
Hi! Interesting project, but I mostly agree with Colin: asynchronous
programming is hard and in my opinion wouldn't become a 'killer
feature'. More, I am sure there are concepts in functional languages
which will overcome the callback-passing approach of JavaScript. I
think, Haskell's continuation
OK, april 1st?
2014-04-01 23:11 GMT+04:00 Sergey Mironov :
> Hi! Interesting project, but I mostly agree with Colin: asynchronous
> programming is hard and in my opinion wouldn't become a 'killer
> feature'. More, I am sure there are concepts in functional languages
> which will overcome the callb
Guys,
Wasn't this "replace Nix with JavaScript in a community of folks who
love purity, lazyness and high-level languages" post an April's fools?
Check the date!
Or am I mistaken and is this a serious proposal?
Confused,
Gergely
On Tue, 1 Apr 2014 10:43:15 -0500, Colin Putney writes:
> On Tue
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Guys,
Wasn't this &qu
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 4:52 PM, Sander van der Burg - EWI <
s.vanderb...@tudelft.nl> wrote:
> I have decided to update my blog post with some additional notes based on
> the discussion:
>
Ugh. I fell for it. I even wondered if it could be a joke and then decided
"No way! Look at all this code. D
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On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 4:52 PM, Sander van der Burg - EWI
mailto:s.vanderb...@tudelft.nl>>
On 04/02/2014 08:38 PM, Sander van der Burg - EWI wrote:
Well, the package is not a joke. It's actually capable of doing all the
things that I described.
However, for me it's just a toy project/playground of mostly
silly/useless experiments that I collected the the 1.5 years. A few use
cases hav
On 04/02/2014 08:43 PM, Vladimír Čunát wrote:
It really seemed strange to me from the start, even not considering the
date... but then I believed your intentions when I remembered Guix,
which was a very similar project from my point of view (only the creator
has a different favorite language :-).
-dev] NiJS package manager
On 04/02/2014 08:43 PM, Vladimír Čunát wrote:
> It really seemed strange to me from the start, even not considering the
> date... but then I believed your intentions when I remembered Guix,
> which was a very similar project from my point of view (only the creato
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