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Garnix (A Nix CI) is shutting down

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Re: Garnix (A Nix CI) is shutting down

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

efskap wrote: post #19
storus wrote: post #16

Was this named by a German? "Gar nichts", pronounced as "Gar Nix", means "absolutely nothing".

At least for Nix itself, that's pretty much it except via Dutch. > The name Nix is derived from the Dutch word niks, meaning nothing; build actions do not see anything that has not been explicitly declared as an input From page 81 of the original paper: https://edolstra.github.io/pubs/nspfssd-lisa2004-final.pdf

That's surprising; nix is Latin for snow, and its logo is a snow flake, so I just assumed it was that.

Re: Garnix (A Nix CI) is shutting down

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Post by 6ak74rfy »

Norfair wrote: post #22

Congrats to the team! To all Garnix users: NixCI is very similar so I'd like to welcome you to try it out. Demo: https://nix-ci.com/demo Comparison: https://nix-ci.com/comparison/garnix

Was looking for an alternative myself but seems like there's no free tier? (Garnix had a rather generous one.)

I don't mind self hosting the workers (because my use cases are just in my homelab) but I need to contact you for that? Why isn't that just openly documented?

Re: Garnix (A Nix CI) is shutting down

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Post by microtonal »

efskap wrote: post #19
storus wrote: post #16

Was this named by a German? "Gar nichts", pronounced as "Gar Nix", means "absolutely nothing".

At least for Nix itself, that's pretty much it except via Dutch. > The name Nix is derived from the Dutch word niks, meaning nothing; build actions do not see anything that has not been explicitly declared as an input From page 81 of the original paper: https://edolstra.github.io/pubs/nspfssd-lisa2004-final.pdf

Also, I think the founder's username in various places is nixnut. Which to an English-only speaker means someone crazy about Nix (Nix fan). However in Dutch 'niksnut' or 'nietsnut' loosely translates to 'bum'.

Re: Garnix (A Nix CI) is shutting down

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Post by catelm »

Norfair wrote: post #22

Congrats to the team! To all Garnix users: NixCI is very similar so I'd like to welcome you to try it out. Demo: https://nix-ci.com/demo Comparison: https://nix-ci.com/comparison/garnix

Note that Garnix is more than a CI system. It also allows for hosting apps with a quite brilliant and AFAIK unique solution to interdependencies. https://garnix.io/blog/call-by-hash/

Re: Garnix (A Nix CI) is shutting down

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Post by arianvanp »

sufehmi wrote: post #2

All clouds / serverless will end up like this. It's a matter of "when", not "if"

Yeh... This month has been especially tough. I'm both a customer of cirrus labs (now bought up by OpenAI) and garnix (now bought up by Shopify) and I'm scared that whatever competitor I switch to is also just gonna get bought out.

Now I have two CI providers to replace by the end of the Quarter

Sigh

Re: Garnix (A Nix CI) is shutting down

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Post by weinzierl »

storus wrote: post #16

Was this named by a German? "Gar nichts", pronounced as "Gar Nix", means "absolutely nothing".

"gar" is a useful amplifying prefix in German that can be used in all kinds of situations and I think it lacks a direct equivalent in English. Unlike totally, for example, gar can only stand alone in very specific contexts and usually is used more like an intensifying prefix.

So garnix would be the total and utter nothing.

Re: Garnix (A Nix CI) is shutting down

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Post by isityettime »

isityettime wrote: post #14
tripdout wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Back to Nix again? I remember one of their employees had a great video series on it, but then they stopped using it because it was too complicated.

Yeah, they gave a talk about it at NixCon last year: https://talks.nixcon.org/nixcon-2025/talk/UPHTPD/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYzjKCIqUVk I don't remember all of the details, so if you're curious you should watch the talk. :) But IIRC the main points that differentiated this new effort from the old one were that (1) there was buy-in from the very top of the company, (2) they took a more incremental approach…

Oops, I linked to the original (2019) talk above. Here's the new one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogW7UL1Jxm4
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