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Thanks for letting me know! I've updated the blog post to reflect that terminology.

As the author of the article, I'll say that my intent was to share the good time I had writing a Lua interpreter in Go. Other folks in the thread are right: more than one thing in …

Yup, as others have mentioned, it's for zb. I originally outlined some background on design goals for this blog post, but the outline for that section was as big as the outline for…

Good point. Opened https://github.com/256lights/zb/issues/47 to track this idea.

Thank you! My name is Roxy. https://www.zombiezen.com/blog/2024/07/my-name-is-roxy/

Thanks! And go for it, it's a good learning experience! It's a really interesting problem domain and there's a lot of different directions you can take it.

Rad! Yes, please keep me in the loop!

Interesting! Thanks, hadn't seen that yet. (For anyone else curious, the RFC is here: https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/blob/master/rfcs/0092-plan-dyn... )

Oh and as for Starlark, I went into more detail over in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41596426

Heh, I think I need to add something to the README. I've been pronouncing it as "zeeb" in my head as in the first syllable Zebesian Space Pirate from Metroid, but TIL that that's c…

Cool! Contact info is in my profile and on my website. :)

According to Build systems à la carte, "it is not possible to express dynamic dependencies in [Bazel's] user-defined build rules; however some of the pre-defined build rules requir…

That's accurate (unless the config file attempts to read something from the build process, that will trigger a build). It's a good point about debugging build problems. This is an …

Not yet, but I've hacked up most of the Linux sandboxing: https://github.com/256lights/zb/issues/29 I want to introduce Windows sandboxing, too, but I'm not as confident about how …

Nice! It might be a little too rough until I've got a working C compiler for Windows: https://github.com/256lights/zb/issues/6 (and Linux for that matter: https://github.com/256lig…

Nix sandboxes derivation runs on Linux even without flakes, and I'm planning on implementing that, yes: https://github.com/256lights/zb/issues/29 and https://github.com/256lights/z…

Tracking issue is https://github.com/256lights/zb/issues/2 The hurdles to interop I see are: - Nixpkgs is not content-addressed (yet). I made a conscious decision to only support c…

Yup, that was how I built the prototype: https://www.zombiezen.com/blog/2024/06/zb-build-system-proto... The last commit using that approach was https://github.com/256lights/zb/tre…

(Hi! I recognize your name from Bazel mailing lists but I forget whether we've talked before.) I'm mostly contrasting from Nix, which has difficulty with poisoning cache when faced…

Yup, remote building and caching is on my radar. I expect it will work much in the same way Nix does now, although I'm being a bit more deliberate in creating an RPC layer so build…

The Lua VSCode extension adds a type system that works really well IME

Thank you! <3

That would be my guess as well. Please do let me know what you find, and feel free to open any issues or PRs.