[Nix-dev] Re: Building a GNU 0.401 ISO

[Yury G. Kudryashov]

Eelco Dolstra wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On 04/01/2011 01:29 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Once NixOS GNU/Hurd is stable, I plan to incrementally replace Nix (the
>> implementation, and then the language) by something based on Guile
>> Scheme
> 
> This is unnecessary.  Just the other day I was talking with Rob about
> bootstrapping Nix in Nix, since any serious language can build itself. 
> This shouldn't be too hard to do, and the performance impact should be
> relatively negligible.
Could you please provide some details? Am I right that nix does not (and 
must not) provide any means to modify anything outside of the /nix/store 
while evaluating an expression?