Good luck, and have fun ;) 2017-03-28 11:45 GMT+02:00 Théophane Hufschmitt <rg_ni...@regnat.ovh>:
> Hi everyone, > > My internship has now started, and I'll try to post regular updates on > https://typing-nix.regnat.ovh/ as promised. So if you're interested, > just follow the rss :) > > > -- > > Théophane Hufschmitt > > Thu 12 Jan 17 − 14:13, Théophane Hufschmitt(rg_ni...@regnat.ovh) a écrit: > > Hi, > > > > I am Théophane Hufschmitt, a french master degree CS student, and I > > wish to start a six month length internship on giving nix a type > > system. > > > > Numtide offered to fund a part of the internship, but we still need > > some help for me to be able to start it. > > > > The goal of the internship is to design (and implement) a type system > > for nix in order to be able to statically get some guaranties about > > the well-foundness of the nixpkgs repo (or any nix expression), in > > complement to hydra or travis tests which may let some inconsistencies > > pass − especially on nixos module system which is way harder to test. > > > > Providing nix with a proper type system is a long running issue (see > > https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/14), and I think a huge > > opportunity for nix to improve its awesomeness. > > > > The crowdfunding campaign (and a slightly more detailled description of > > the project) is open at https://www.gofundme.com/typing-nix, and you > > are all invited to donate. > > > > Of course, I'll be happy to answer any question, by mail or on > > irc/matrix (I am regnat[m] on freenode). > > > > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > >
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