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It looks awesome, but couldn't it be a cargo plugin instead? (Or nix plugin). Something like cargo --nix build ... The problem with the name riff is that it'

It looks awesome, but couldn't it be a cargo plugin instead? (Or nix plugin). Something like cargo --nix build ... The problem with the name riff is that it's a new tool name to learn again, and nix already has name recognition. I feel that there are just too many tool names to learn in the open source ecosystem.

grhmc 4y ago
It could be a Cargo plugin, and we looked at doing that. There may also be some neat tricks around build.rs integration. However, we decided to wait on those. After all: it only supports rust today, but we're eyeing a future where we support Go + Javascript too. We want Riff to work relatively consistently across these ecosystems.
- awill88 4y ago
  Ah, riffing it I see.