[Nix-dev] Perl -> C++

Domen Kožar domen at dev.si
Thu Dec 31 12:13:00 CET 2015


I really don't see a correlation between rewriting perl parts in C++ and
why/how we should rewrite Nix in a different language. Could we separate
the threads?


Mateusz, did you get an answer to your questions to be able to start
contributing?

On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 12:05 PM, stewart mackenzie <setori88 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Language features of the implementation language are generally lost when
> implementing a new language.
>
> So we are left with: "can be compiled and existing infrastructure."
>
> Leveraging LLVM would be astute.
>
> On 31 Dec 2015 21:47, "Tomasz Czyż" <tomasz.czyz at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Why not haskell?
> >
> > It's functional (like nix), can be compiled, in nixos, there is already
> infrastructure for it.
>
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