Hehe, the good ol' internal vs external DSL debate.... In my opinion, the good thing about an experiment like this, is to show how people can utilise Nix to solve their deployment issues, instead of developing yet-another-specialised-package-manager-for-a-particular-programming-language-or-environment. ________________________________________ From: Ludovic Courtès [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, July 09, 2012 11:21 AM To: Sander van der Burg - EWI Cc: nix-dev Subject: Re: [Nix-dev] [***SPAM***] [ANN] Guix, functional package management from Guile
Hey, Sander van der Burg - EWI <[email protected]> skribis: > Awesome experiment Ludovic! Thanks. :-) > Actually, I had some "crazy ideas" in the past as well. For example, > to develop an "internal DSL" for Nix in Scala (no specific reason why > it's useful, but oh well....) Yeah, I believe embedded DSLs have nice advantages. Thanks, Ludo’. _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
