| 16 Oct 2025 |
 rosssmyth | Especially cause the main dev, Eli, really treats users with contempt tbh | 18:36:10 |
 jade_ | yeah but also i really hate the idea of fb owning the lix build system, in spite of working on one of the largest non-fb installations of buck2 at work and having a generally pretty good experience with it :P | 19:05:58 |
| jade_ | like, it's got governance issues up there with some of the worst projects out there | 19:06:15 |
| jade_ | * like, it's got governance issues up there with some of the worst projects out there by being straight up non-negotiably owned by fb | 19:06:28 |
| jade_ | * like, it's got governance issues up there with some of the worst projects out there by being straight up non-negotiably owned by fb. but the maintainers are lovely people. so idk. | 19:06:38 |
| jade_ | but indeed, i am a meson hater, i just don't know if there's any better alternatives that actually care about the distro use case | 19:07:17 |
 just1602 | Fork buck2, called it luck, and put it under lix governance ! :D | 19:10:34 |
| rosssmyth | Yeah. I totally get it. I know one of the buck2 devs and great guy. I've never used it cause I think the docs aren't very good rn, and the whole meta aspect as well. | 19:10:42 |
| just1602 | I'll see myself out ! 👋 | 19:10:43 |
| jade_ | have you seen how big buck2 is, lmfao | 19:10:48 |
| jade_ | it's that you can't afford to maintain a fork! | 19:10:54 |
| jade_ | the docs are pretty hilarious yes, we have to read the sources about as much if not more than nixpkgs | 19:11:27 |
| rosssmyth | Yeah all my C projects are embedded and so my first question is always "ok how do I use arm-none-eabi gcc" and spending a bit looking around in the docs my answer is "idk bro" | 19:12:36 |
| jade_ | the answer is it's in your toolchain definition, but yeah, uh, hahahahahahahaha lmao | 19:13:37 |
