[Nix-dev] NiJS package manager
Eelco Dolstra
eelco.dolstra at logicblox.com
Tue Apr 1 14:00:26 CEST 2014
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 while still having most of the
> useful goodies that Nix has.
>
> Furthermore, because it's asynchronous and I/O events are non-blocking, it's
> also very fast and highly scalable.
Great stuff, this will finally enable truly massive, web-scale package
management. I've long felt that the lack of non-blocking I/O and callbacks in
the Nix language has really held us back.
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Eelco Dolstra | LogicBlox, Inc. | http://nixos.org/~eelco/
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