Why not haskell? It's functional (like nix), can be compiled, in nixos, there is already infrastructure for it.
2015-12-31 10:26 GMT+00:00 Anderson Torres <torres.anderson...@gmail.com>: > The main motivation is to get rid of dependencies. It would greatly > help in porting Nix to other architectures and systems. > > 2015-12-31 4:06 GMT-02:00 stewart mackenzie <setor...@gmail.com>: > > This is our usage of Rust: https://github.com/fractalide/rustfbp > > The nix scripts to build all the rust components with capnproto > > dependencies in a deterministic fashion: > > https://github.com/fractalide/fractalide > > we use nix basically to replace make, it's still a WIP. > > > > I'm okay which most implementation languages used for nix, including > > Perl. I'm merely sharing my opinion on Rust. > > Though I would _like_ to see Rust used because of the barrage of > > niceties associated with it. > > > > peace > > /sjm > > > > On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 3:36 PM, Shea Levy <s...@shealevy.com> wrote: > >> Nothing's stopping you from starting the conversion. If it's clearly > >> better, it will be a lot easier to convince people once you have actual > >> code to show. > > _______________________________________________ > > nix-dev mailing list > > nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl > > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > -- Tomasz Czyż
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