C++ supports on whole lot more platforms than the proposed alternatives. If Nix is to become a universal package manager it seems important as a feature. That being said, we're bound to have security issues if the nix-daemon is it's written in an unsafe language.
On Thu, 31 Dec 2015 at 11:36 Luca Bruno <[email protected]> wrote: > Nix is already C++. It's just that some tools are written in perl. Nix > certainly isn't going to be rewritten in another language, at this time > would be a waste of efforts in my opinion. > The perl->c++ is about reducing the nix closure even more, but translating > perl tools to c++. > > > On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 12:33 PM, Tomasz Czyż <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Domen, I think this evolved from why perl -> c++ not perl -> X. Not sure >> this went to nix -> X. >> But if decision was already made that c++ is the one, probably discussion >> is over :)? >> > > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >
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