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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 bu…

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 wo…

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 Java…

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, l…

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, a…

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 r…

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 compa…

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…

> 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 bin…

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…

This is a project I've wanted to write for a long time now. I really love the ideas from Nix and I still have a ton of respect for the project, but Nix-the-language never felt intu…

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_k…

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 t…