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

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Eelco!

Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra at tudelft.nl> writes:

> 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.

Oh, sounds like a nice plan!  Then maybe we could retarget Guile’s
compiler to the Nix VM, which would benefit not only to Emacs (users
could extend it in Nix, in addition to Emacs Lisp and Scheme) but also
to GNU Smalltalk [0].

When do we start?

Ludo’.

[0] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.gnu.general/6937