[Nix-dev] Typing nix − funding campaign

Théophane Hufschmitt rg_nixos at regnat.ovh
Tue Mar 28 11:45:54 CEST 2017


Hi everyone,

My internship has now started, and I'll try to post regular updates on
https://typing-nix.regnat.ovh/ as promised. So if you're interested,
just follow the rss :)

> -- 
> Théophane Hufschmitt

Thu 12 Jan 17 − 14:13, Théophane Hufschmitt(rg_nixos at regnat.ovh) a écrit:
> Hi,
> 
> I am Théophane Hufschmitt, a french master degree CS student, and I
> wish to start a six month length internship on giving nix a type
> system.
> 
> Numtide offered to fund a part of the internship, but we still need
> some help for me to be able to start it.
> 
> The goal of the internship is to design (and implement) a type system
> for nix in order to be able to statically get some guaranties about
> the well-foundness of the nixpkgs repo (or any nix expression), in
> complement to hydra or travis tests which may let some inconsistencies
> pass − especially on nixos module system which is way harder to test.
> 
> Providing nix with a proper type system is a long running issue (see
> https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/14), and I think a huge
> opportunity for nix to improve its awesomeness.
> 
> The crowdfunding campaign (and a slightly more detailled description of
> the project) is open at https://www.gofundme.com/typing-nix, and you
> are all invited to donate.
> 
> Of course, I'll be happy to answer any question, by mail or on
> irc/matrix (I am regnat[m] on freenode).
> 
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