Tvix – A New Implementation of Nix
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Re: Tvix – A New Implementation of Nix
#2PS: TVL is international, but a lot of the development will take place in our office in Moscow. Say hi if you're around and interested!
That's going to be a no from me.
Re: Tvix – A New Implementation of Nix
#3Maybe worth mentioning rust and performance more prominently as the motivations.
Is Nix eating the world? We have seen lots of unbelievable projects using it on HN recently. It feels like anyone serious about complex systems and building software are embracing it.
I use it extensively also via nixpkgs, though somehow I have yet to make the leap to full NixOS.
One consideration for anyone who hasn’t jumped in, is that I have nixpkgs on Linux, MacOS, and Win11 hosts. I’ve found that incredibly useful.
Re: Tvix – A New Implementation of Nix
#4One useful webpage this project provides is this godbolt for nix:
really useful.
Re: Tvix – A New Implementation of Nix
#5Maybe worth mentioning rust and performance more prominently as the motivations. Is Nix eating the world? We have seen lots of unbelievable projects using it on HN recently. It feels like anyone serious about complex systems and building software are embracing it. I use it extensively also via nixpkgs, though somehow I have yet to make the leap to full NixOS. One consideration for anyone who hasn’t jumped in, is that…
Can you provide some links to some projects? You’ve piqued my interest
Re: Tvix – A New Implementation of Nix
#6Maybe worth mentioning rust and performance more prominently as the motivations. Is Nix eating the world? We have seen lots of unbelievable projects using it on HN recently. It feels like anyone serious about complex systems and building software are embracing it. I use it extensively also via nixpkgs, though somehow I have yet to make the leap to full NixOS. One consideration for anyone who hasn’t jumped in, is that…
Can you provide some links to some projects? You’ve piqued my interest
Tow-Boot comes to mind for me. https://github.com/Tow-Boot/Tow-Boot/
Also plenty of projects here: https://github.com/nix-community/awesome-nix
Re: Tvix – A New Implementation of Nix
#7Maybe worth mentioning rust and performance more prominently as the motivations. Is Nix eating the world? We have seen lots of unbelievable projects using it on HN recently. It feels like anyone serious about complex systems and building software are embracing it. I use it extensively also via nixpkgs, though somehow I have yet to make the leap to full NixOS. One consideration for anyone who hasn’t jumped in, is that…
There's also nix-darwin and home-manager. I barely use brew anymore, not directly anyway, for the rare packages that aren't in nixpkgs.
Re: Tvix – A New Implementation of Nix
#8It's worth noting that tvix explicitly[1] does not support flakes.
[1] https://lobste.rs/s/ypwgwp/tvix_we_are_rewriting_nix#c_zvtze...
Re: Tvix – A New Implementation of Nix
#9It's worth noting that tvix explicitly[1] does not support flakes. [1] https://lobste.rs/s/ypwgwp/tvix_we_are_rewriting_nix#c_zvtze...
This seems to be from 2 years ago, a lot of things could have changed.
He seemed quite opinionated on flakes, but the only bad thing that I can see to flakes is that you cannot pass args to them, for imo no valid reason, you have to use the file+file protocol and update the inputs each time to have a reasonable way to pass parameters...
Re: Tvix – A New Implementation of Nix
#10Does tvix support targeting windows? And I do not mean WSL. iirc, the nix attempted a windows port but there were some hardcoded assumptions made about unix in the implementation that made it intractable, for example the location of the store. Do these issues also hold for tvix?