[Nix-dev] NiJS package manager

[Alexander Kjeldaas]

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 think keeping the core as small as
possible is worth the extra verbosity of using a strict language.

My 2 cents.

Alexander
On Apr 1, 2014 12:11 PM, "Sander van der Burg - EWI" <
S.vanderBurg at tudelft.nl> wrote:

>  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 has.
>
> Furthermore, because it's asynchronous and I/O events are non-blocking,
> it's also very fast and highly scalable.
>
> More info:
>
>
> http://sandervanderburg.blogspot.com/2014/04/asynchronous-package-management-with.html
>
> Best,
>
> Sander
>
>
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