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Disclaimer: Nix(OS) developer, I am biased. It's very important for us to get such feedback. This allows us to improve and move forward. In Nix defense I thin
by iElectric2 10y ago
Disclaimer: Nix(OS) developer, I am biased.
It's very important for us to get such feedback. This allows us to improve and move forward.
In Nix defense I think it's not worth comparing stability yet, although that is the most important aspect for users.
What matters currently is how many smart people grasp the idea why we're fundamentally better by architecturing the language and packaging problem itself and any help we get to move us forward.
For fair comparison you should note that we have ~800 contributors, probably more than 90% are on Linux. Meanwhile Homebrew packages have almost 6000 contributors.
We have recently added 4 macs to our build farm at http://hydra.nixos.org/machines http://hydra.nixos.org/machines, but we desperately need more developers that care. Not 6000, just a few more.
- CJefferson 10y agoIs there an easy overview page to see packages which are failing to build on Mac, maybe even with a link to the failing build output?
- novembermike 10y agoI played around with it and ended up getting rid of it for basically the same reasons, but I have to say that I was impressed by how easy it was to remove. When I got rid of Homebrew I had to run a script that did a bunch of non-obvious things, when I got rid of Nix I did rm -rf /nix && rm -rf ~/nix-* and removed a line from my zshrc. My main complaint with Nix itself was that Vim was built without python support so Youcompleteme didn't work and it wasn't obvious how to recompile it to have python support, but the experience was nice enough that I'll give it another go later on.