[Nix-dev] Typing nix − funding campaign

[Maarten Hoogendoorn]

Good luck, and have fun ;)

2017-03-28 11:45 GMT+02:00 Théophane Hufschmitt <rg_nixos at regnat.ovh>:

> 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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