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Usually when there is no clear answer to this in a FOSS project, I think it's safe to assume the answer is ego.
by benihana 14y ago
Usually when there is no clear answer to this in a FOSS project, I think it's safe to assume the answer is ego.
- __david__ 14y agoWhile you're not necessarily wrong, "ego" gives off a pretty negative vibe. I would say it's quite often personal dissatisfaction of the status quo. I support what they are doing. Wheels sometimes get better when they are reinvented.
- mseebach 14y agoI'm not one to declare other people's motivation, but it strikes me as very odd that there isn't a "So, here's what's irreparably wrong with dpkg/apt and rpm/yum".
- zem 14y agoit's fixing a (real or perceived) problem with nix, not with dpkg or rpm.
- mseebach 14y agoWell, there isn't a "So, here's what's wrong with nix" either.
- zem 14y agothere kind of is, if you read between the lines - their usp is the scheme interface, which provides a "proper" programming language with which to interact with the packaging system. they don't explicitly call that out as something wrong with nix, but it's clearly what they feel they do better.
- rhizome 14y agoWhat relation would you say ego has to scratching one's own itch?
- michaelhoffman 14y agoI think the concepts are intertwined, if you are going to scratch your own itch and then release it for the rest of the world to scratch theirs. "We will encourage you to develop the three great virtues of a programmer: laziness, impatience, and hubris." — Larry Wall