| 27 Dec 2025 |
 Acid Bong | the big point of flakes (or any other pinning system) is exactly the presence of a lockfile | 16:05:15 |
 daslixou | * Hello!
I'm Lixou and recently got dragged to the idea of playing with linux systems again.
Now, because I am so smart that I directly from the first second on knew a whole own pacman and distro would be a bit much, I thought about helping here instead. (My main reasons for my own distro experiment were that I find nix unreadable in some places and that I thought nix would easily install 20 versions of a lib because well "reproducable" instead of just the newest, which I know now is not the case ^^')
So I don't have much experience with nix, but some with linux and heard that you have some clear visions for nix' future and want to port/rewrite the parser in rust.
Yeah idk how to end this, I'm just silly :3 I love rust and have way too many projects but some contributions to another rust parser are certainly missing. So if there's a broad idea and issues to the parser, I could help :)
(also I'm Lixou and Lix is called Lix, so that's funny) | 16:05:17 |
| daslixou | * Hello!
I'm Lixou and recently got dragged to the idea of playing with linux systems again.
Now, because I am so smart that I directly from the first second on knew a whole own pacman and distro would be a bit much, I thought about helping here instead. (My main reasons for my own distro experiment were that I find nix unreadable in some places and that I thought nix would easily install 20 versions of a lib because well "reproducable" instead of just the newest, which I know now is not the case ^^')
So I don't have much experience with nix, but some with linux and heard that you have some clear visions for nix' future and want to port/rewrite the parser in rust.
Yeah idk how to end this, I'm just silly :3 I love rust and have way too many projects but some contributions to another rust parser are certainly missing. So if there's a broad idea and issues to the parser, I could help :)
(also I'm Lixou and Lix is called Lix, so that's funny) ((I know I lack humor)) | 16:05:38 |
 K900 | There is some work ongoing on the Rust parser, you want to talk to @piegames about that | 16:06:38 |
| Acid Bong | port/rewrite the parser in Rust
not Lix, that's Tvix and Snix folks
| 16:06:40 |
| Acid Bong | welp, Lix isn't planning to use Rust as much as those do | 16:07:01 |
| K900 | Lix is definitely planning it | 16:07:14 |
| daslixou | well I've read the zulip discussion | 16:07:25 |
| K900 | And one of the major blockers towards this has been recently fixed | 16:07:26 |
| daslixou | well I've read skimmed over the zulip discussion | 16:07:43 |
| Acid Bong | ah, so they also want to get rid of the eval-build separation? | 16:08:03 |
| Acid Bong | (or is it not the point?) | 16:08:14 |
| K900 | That is not the point | 16:08:18 |
| K900 | But that is also something we'd like to do at some point | 16:08:26 |
 raitobezarius | we definitely want to fully go to Rust | 16:09:26 |
| raitobezarius | it's just a matter of possibility | 16:09:32 |
| Acid Bong | oh, didn't know that | 16:09:52 |
| daslixou | also - with a bit confusion, I know that nix is seperated into pkgs and os (and lang), is lix primarily a "better" interpreter? or are there also plans/active things on doing something like lixos? (I'm asking because I dislike using systemd) | 16:10:31 |
| K900 | Lix is just an interpreter | 16:11:12 |
| K900 | There is currently no LixOS | 16:11:19 |
| K900 | But given anyone who is involved in something like that happening, there will be more systemd | 16:11:29 |
| K900 | Not less | 16:11:30 |
| K900 | Because in fact systemd good | 16:12:07 |
| K900 | (mostly) | 16:12:13 |
 Spectral (he/him) | I mean if there evet will be something like LixOS then it should probably not be named that to avoid recreating the whole naming headache that nix has | 16:12:50 |
| K900 | It will not be named LixOS no | 16:13:28 |
 Coca | "it's up to you to break generational trauma" | 16:15:25 |
| Acid Bong | at least it's more convenient than Guix being used for both the repo (guixpkgs*), the OS (guixos*) and the tool
(ik the OS is technically called Guix System, but most ppl drop "system") | 16:16:21 |
 piegames | In reply to @k900:0upti.me
There is some work ongoing on the Rust parser, you want to talk to @piegames about that https://git.lix.systems/piegames/lix-parser it has started ✨ | 16:22:27 |
| piegames | Living out of tree while still in the prototype stage | 16:22:48 |
