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Wait, Nix isn't "modern" anymore? Can we please, for the love of Flying Spaghetti Monsters, stop calling everything new "modern" as if that word adds somethin

• yjftsjthsd-h 2y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nix_(package_manager) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nix_(package_manager) says > Initial release June 15, 2003; 20 years ago So... just by calendar time, no, nix probably isn't "modern". Though I do agree that calling a new thing modern isn't the most useful description; much better to say how it's better than the thing that came before it. The steel man is probably that "modern" is shorthand for "the underlying ecosystem/tools have shifted and the old thing suffers for not being able to adopt better ways of doing things, and this new thing will therefore be easier to work on / more robust / more feature-rich / less buggy / etc.", but I'd rather have that be articulated explicitly.
  • rgoulter 2y ago
    > much better to say how it's better than the thing that came before it. I thought the mention of Rust, and versioning the language itself (like what Rust does) covers this. That, and, the last few NixCpp revisions apparently had some significant regressions.
    • HumblyTossed 2y ago
      Then simply say, "Lix, a delicious implementation of the Nix package manager". The word modern is developers "game changer". It's so over used to the point of nauseating.