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For the lazy: bought by Shopify, apparently
by isityettime 4mo ago
For the lazy: bought by Shopify, apparently
- xiaoyu2006 4mo agogood for the team, bad for the community.
- isityettime 4mo agoYeah. I'm happy for them. But I'm also sad, because clouds are awful in terms of the way they handle state, and Garnix was paving the way towards something better.
- khuedoan 4mo agobut the community still gets the source code, kudos to the Garnix team!
- isityettime 4mo agoGood point. Really graceful way to transition, and it definitely offsets the loss. Maybe in some ways it'll end up being a net gain, who knows?
- tripdout 4mo agoBack to Nix again? I remember one of their employees had a great video series on it, but then they stopped using it because it was too complicated.
- isityettime 4mo agoYeah, they gave a talk about it at NixCon last year: https://talks.nixcon.org/nixcon-2025/talk/UPHTPD/ https://talks.nixcon.org/nixcon-2025/talk/UPHTPD/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYzjKCIqUVk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYzjKCIqUVk I don't remember all of the details, so if you're curious you should watch the talk. :) But IIRC the main points that differentiated this new effort from the old one were that (1) there was buy-in from the very top of the company, (2) they took a more incremental approach where the old one was more all-or-nothing, and (3) they tackled the edge cases and hardest repos first. The talk includes some info about the failings of their first effort as well. It's worth a watch.
- isityettime 4mo agoOops, I linked to the original (2019) talk above. Here's the new one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogW7UL1Jxm4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogW7UL1Jxm4