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I have not been following closely this back story, so I am not aware of such ban, or that (allegedly) Lix is Pierre Bourdon’s software. I am not affiliated wit

• max-privatevoid 2y ago
  Why call it "Cppnix"?
  • eviks 2y ago
    Because it's written in C++ and the fork plans to rewrite in Rust?
    • Macha 2y ago
      Also there's too many things called Nix. There's the overall project, the language, and the primary interpretation. It's also why you'll sometimes see nixlang to refer to the language.
      • forgotpwd16 2y ago
        Thought was the norm using capitalized for language and lower case for the tooling. So Nix/nix, like AWK/awk and Go/go.
        • Macha 2y ago
          Full caps AWK feels like a relic from the screaming UNIX days, and golang for Go is incredibly common (and as far as I can tell, the proximate cause of the nixlang term)
        • eviks 2y ago
          Then there is also golang
    • otabdeveloper4 2y ago
      > fork plans to rewrite in Rust Lmao. Won't ever happen.
      • RaitoBezarius 2y ago
        https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix/src/branch/main/src/lix-doc/src/lib.rs https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix/src/branch/main/src/...
      • marshycity 2y ago
        oh?
  • pxc 2y ago
    It helps disambiguate Nixlang from the codebase that includes the Nix CLI and the Nix daemon, for one. It's also an unambiguous designation for the original Nix implementation, as opposed to Lix and Tvix. A Lix user might well reasonably say they 'use Nix' because they use Nixlang. Thus some people are Nix users but not CppNix users. As Tvix matures, the same will be true of Tvix users.
  • bfrog 2y ago
    Because apparently nix isn’t enough despite being the project name, executable name, and the name of the language it implements. No one calls rust “rustrust”
• anonfordays 2y ago
  >I have not been following closely this back story, so I am not aware of such ban https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41503923 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41503923