[Nix-dev] Monitoring by default

[Michael Raskin]

>On 04/23/2016 01:35 PM, Michael Raskin wrote:
>>> That’s what they always say right before they make a 10 person team
>>> work fulltime on a project. ;)
>> 
>> Well, they have Bazel… And I have grounds to believe they are not going
>> to use Nix this year.
>
>Bazel's focus seems a little lower, similar to other build tools like
>(c)make. Apparently, Google people like to pull sources of all
>dependencies into their project's VCS.
>
>That's quite useful to reduce rebuilding after touching very few files.
>I've seen a mini-distro done in that style http://gittup.org/gittup/ -

Well, I observe that Google works as if their motto would be «Doing 
things almost right», although this is more about external services and
not internal infrastructure.

But from infrastructure point of view, they don't really need anything
the size (and diversity) of NixPkgs. Even when they go into notebooks 
they explicitly refuse building a complete desktop OS.