On 16-01-04 12:34am, [email protected] wrote:
> If someone is interested in a pure Rust implementation, then a prerequsite 
> would be to 
> come up with a rigorous definition of the language and all of the builtins, 
> and then 
> identifying the unix specific builitins and derivation behavior. I say this 
> because that 
> alone would be a worthwile effort, it is something that I would like to see 
> done, and 
> should be enough work to discourage anyone who thinks rewriting Nix is a good 
> idea.
> 
> Emery

fyi jwiegley is working on a Haskell implementation. 
https://github.com/jwiegley/hnix 
 
Of course this leads to discovery of undocumented bits of the language, 
e.g. the shadowing of identifiers imported by with vs. created by let. 


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