| 13 Mar 2026 |
 flokli | In reply to @raitobezarius:matrix.org
i think the biggest annoyance about gRPC is that it mandates HTTP2 on the wire and it's so annoying Hey, it could be worse. Like varlink over the network. | 15:17:42 |
 raitobezarius (DECT: 7248) | let's not talk about varlink | 15:17:54 |
| flokli | Oh wait | 15:18:02 |
| raitobezarius (DECT: 7248) | also varlink is more like a channel for control planes than data planes | 15:18:25 |
| raitobezarius (DECT: 7248) | but i want off the gRPC wild ride, the Nix daemon bespoke protocol wild ride, the SSH as a high performance data plane wild ride and the Varlink wild ride please | 15:18:55 |
| raitobezarius (DECT: 7248) | (and cap'n'proto is not even perfect, i know) | 15:19:17 |
 piegames | I understand. The RPC migration is getting paid for by an NLNet grant, and I'm currently applying to NLNet for a bytecode/libexpr Rust migration grant | 15:23:56 |
| piegames | We might be able to do GSOC next year, but this year unfortunately there are not sufficient mentoring capacities | 15:24:24 |
| raitobezarius (DECT: 7248) | I don't think Lisanna would need a GSoC student role as they're mentoring ;-) | 15:25:50 |
| raitobezarius (DECT: 7248) | I don't know where you are based neither where you are aiming for a job, but the Lix community also has companies surrounding it in EU (mostly), not necessarily to work on Lix but to work with Lix on other topics; I knew in the past there were also US companies hiring in the Lix community as well | 15:27:24 |
| raitobezarius (DECT: 7248) | But I understand the strategy | 15:27:33 |
 Lisanna | a lot of my background is low level C so honestly even just seeing stuff like conn << var is like "WOW that's so nice and convenient" for me a little bit still ^-^ | 15:27:55 |
| Lisanna | East coast US near DC, unable to move because of partner's in-person job (research reactor tech!), so unfortunately I'm mostly limited to remote. Doesn't have to be working directly on Nix or Lix, maintaining nix-based infra or build systems would also be killer | 15:30:37 |
| raitobezarius (DECT: 7248) | i heard antithesis is hiring if that's your cup of tea | 15:32:45 |
| raitobezarius (DECT: 7248) | i can throw in a referral | 15:32:52 |
| Lisanna | I'd be happy working at antithesis | 15:33:14 |
 Winter | ;-) | 15:33:15 |
| Lisanna | they already have a nix supergenius tho so what even are my chances lol | 15:35:04 |
| raitobezarius (DECT: 7248) | winter would probably give a more direct referral ig | 15:35:10 |
| Winter | We are always strapped for people so the chances aren’t low!
IIRC you already applied in the past, right? (Let’s maybe move to DMs.)
| 15:36:56 |
| Winter | and ideally not on Matrix (you know how to reach me) bc i hate this platform too much | 15:38:57 |
 @rosssmyth:matrix.org | antithesis looks really cool but I do not want to move to VA | 18:46:07 |
| @rosssmyth:matrix.org | or sf | 18:46:54 |
| raitobezarius (DECT: 7248) | Ah true they have a strong in person policy | 19:17:13 |
| raitobezarius (DECT: 7248) | I forgot that | 19:17:15 |
| 16 May 2024 |
|  zrsk joined the room. | 13:54:49 |
 samrose | In reply to @lunaphied:lunaphied.me
I think there were a few CLs on the Gerrit but nothing being actively worked The other thing that I could do if it helps is test things and try to find bugs. I did do some C++ work in the past, but may lack the time to do it justice here at least for about 30 days or so | 15:55:29 |
 Qyriad | we are not in any rush 🙂 | 17:20:53 |
| samrose | Would it help to also test out the existing Lix code and try to find issues/bugs etc? | 17:23:21 |
| Qyriad | absolutely | 17:23:41 |
