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It's a bit unfair to accuse languages which predate Nix by decades of "reinventing" anything.
by jacques_chester 8y ago
It's a bit unfair to accuse languages which predate Nix by decades of "reinventing" anything.
- Shoue 8y agoI don't think it is. First, a correction, Python predates Nix by 12 years, not decades, the first experimentation with what would later be named Nix was published in 2003 by Eelco Dolstra[1]; the 2004 paper[2] refers to it specifically as Nix. However, we aren't comparing Nix (language) to Python, we're comparing Nix (package manager) to easy_install and more recently pip, released in 2004 and 2011 respectively. It's 2019 now, and I don't think it's longer unreasonable to expect what Nix is capable of, of your package manager. [1]: https://nixos.org/~eelco/pubs/iscsd-scm11-final.pdf https://nixos.org/~eelco/pubs/iscsd-scm11-final.pdf [2]: https://nixos.org/~eelco/pubs/nspfssd-lisa2004-final.pdf https://nixos.org/~eelco/pubs/nspfssd-lisa2004-final.pdf