[Nix-dev] Perl -> C++

[Tomasz Czyż]

Why not haskell?

It's functional (like nix), can be compiled, in nixos, there is already
infrastructure for it.

2015-12-31 10:26 GMT+00:00 Anderson Torres <torres.anderson.85 at gmail.com>:

> The main motivation is to get rid of dependencies. It would greatly
> help in porting Nix to other architectures and systems.
>
> 2015-12-31 4:06 GMT-02:00 stewart mackenzie <setori88 at gmail.com>:
> > This is our usage of Rust: https://github.com/fractalide/rustfbp
> > The nix scripts to build all the rust components with capnproto
> > dependencies in a deterministic fashion:
> > https://github.com/fractalide/fractalide
> > we use nix basically to replace make, it's still a WIP.
> >
> > I'm okay which most implementation languages used for nix, including
> > Perl. I'm merely sharing my opinion on Rust.
> > Though I would _like_ to see Rust used because of the barrage of
> > niceties associated with it.
> >
> > peace
> > /sjm
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 3:36 PM, Shea Levy <shea at shealevy.com> wrote:
> >> Nothing's stopping you from starting the conversion. If it's clearly
> >> better, it will be a lot easier to convince people once you have actual
> >> code to show.
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