[Nix-dev] Perl -> C++

Jakob Gillich jakob at gillich.me
Thu Jan 7 04:26:22 CET 2016


> I think there are few enough people who contribute to the nix repo as it is now.

That is actually an argument in favor of a rewrite, C++ is not very
popular in the Linux community. Contributing to Nix will become a lot
more attractive when it's written in a language that people actually
enjoy using. At least that's how I personally feel about it, I'm just
not interested in doing any C++ anymore.

On Wed, Jan 6, 2016, at 09:26 PM, Vladimír Čunát wrote:
> On 01/06/2016 06:36 PM, stewart mackenzie wrote:
> > Shall we start defining the nix language?
> 
> None of the perl stuff deals directly with the nix language, so that
> seems rather a much independent issue. Personally, I think there are few
> enough people who contribute to the nix repo as it is now. Do you think
> starting another implementation would help the quality or something
> else? Even in a horizon of up to several years?
> 
> --Vladimir
> 
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