kylewlacy

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by kylewlacy 2y ago
There are also quite a few attempts at "Nix without NixLang". In the ecosystem, I can think of Nickel (a different configuration language, but one with strong typing), Garn (Nix but using TypeScript), and Guix (Nix but using Schem
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by kylewlacy 2y ago
Very cool! I've been watching the "toolchains in Wasm" landscape for a while, and seeing a Clang/LLVM toolchain running in Wasm is awesome! YoWASP has also had an LLVM toolchain working in Wasm for a while too[1], althou
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by kylewlacy 2y ago
I believe Deno's LSP does use this push model, the missing ingredient is that the LSP server itself is implemented in Rust, but bridges to TypeScript's Language Service API in JavaScript/TypeScript. The TypeScript side calls
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by kylewlacy 2y ago
I think garn is really cool! If I were still in the Nix ecosystem, garn would probably be my go-to Building something on Nix obviously has a ton of benefits: well-proven tooling, lots of mindshare already, TONS of packages. Everyone knows t
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by kylewlacy 2y ago
I'd definitely like to have good performance even for large build graphs! I'm hoping the laziness exists "where it counts". To walk through an example, if you build your backend, and your backend calls the function `post
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by kylewlacy 2y ago
Nushell has definitely been on my radar for a while! but I missed DetSys was playing around with it, I'll have to give that a look One neat thing about Brioche is that Bash isn't really baked into it the same way as the Nix ecosys
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by kylewlacy 2y ago
I've been asked about overrides and attributes a lot! That was one of the sacrifices I had to make to go with a more traditional language, so it's definitely a negative point compared to Nix. That said, I'm hoping to have som
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by kylewlacy 2y ago
ooh, porkg looks pretty interesting, will definitely keep an eye on the project! Definitely agreed about the lockfile ideas! I went with a fairly similar design, although I haven't really escaped the "rebuild the world" situa
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by kylewlacy 2y ago
> What are your plans for cross-compilation or heavy package customization? One of nixpkgs coolest party tricks imo is that you can just change the stdenv and get a musl static binary or cross-compiled binary. So in general, I don't
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by kylewlacy 2y ago
This was one of my bigger pain points with Nix as well: there was a lot of "reinventing the world" just to avoid network access. With Brioche, I stuck with disabling network access by default, but there's an escape hatch to s
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Show HN: Brioche – A new Nix-like package manager(brioche.dev)
168 points by kylewlacy 2y ago|87 comments
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by kylewlacy 5y ago
Another YouTuber beat him to the punch about 2 years ago actually! Here's the moment from his stream where he finally reached the Farlands [volume warning]: https://youtu.be/VAvQ_kT73W4?t=25696 (at the 7:08:17 mark)
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DEF CON Hackers Compete to Hijack a Satellite in Orbit(freethink.com)
3 points by kylewlacy 6y ago|0 comments
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by kylewlacy 8y ago
Was it Ichor[1][2]? A bit later than the "early Windows" days I think (I remember hearing about it around 2007), but it also matches your description and it was the first thing I thought of after playing the game in the post [1]