[Nix-dev] Perl -> C++

[Jakob Gillich]

Nix doesn't have to be rewritten at once; you can rewrite the Perl stuff
in Rust and call them from C++ code via a C interface[1]. This is what
Mozilla does in Firefox, which is also mostly C++. So the question
should be, do we want to get rid of C++ in the long term?

[1]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ffi.html


On Thu, Dec 31, 2015, at 12:36 PM, Luca Bruno wrote:
> Nix is already C++. It's just that some tools are written in perl. Nix
> certainly isn't going to be rewritten in another language, at this
> time would be a waste of efforts in my opinion. The perl->c++ is about
> reducing the nix closure even more, but translating perl tools to c++.
>
> On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 12:33 PM, Tomasz Czyż
> <tomasz.czyz at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Domen, I think this evolved from why perl -> c++ not perl -> X. Not
>> sure this went to nix -> X. But if decision was already made that c++
>> is the one, probably discussion is over :)?
>>
>
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