bramble

Purely functional build system and package manager

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Purely functional build system and package manager

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Jan 2021	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
Feb 2021	2021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Mar 2021	2021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-04-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Apr 2021	2021-04-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-05-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
May 2021	2021-05-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jun 2021	2021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jul 2021	2021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-08-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Aug 2021	2021-08-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-09-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Sep 2021	2021-09-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-10-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Oct 2021	2021-10-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-11-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Nov 2021	2021-11-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-12-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

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vhodges·Nov 22, 2021

I've been looking into Nix a lot lately (but have yet to take the leap - I'll probably start with devshell) But a couple of projects have come up lately that piqued my interest wrt syntax and alteratives (Since I am not sure about Scheme anymore than Nix (as a langauge) :-) * https://github.com/maxmcd/bramble * https://nickel-lang.org/

In How to Learn Nix

maxmcd·Jan 14, 2021

An alternative to Nix that uses Starlark (python syntax) instead of a purely functional programming language: https://github.com/maxmcd/bramble I struggled to climb the steep learning curve of Nix/NixOS and wondered what it would be like with a more familiar (to me) syntax. It's been very rewarding to write. I was able to implement some ideas from the initial Nix paper that aren't present in Nix. Nix is also quite dependent on the use of the /nix/store path, but I was able to allow a user to use almost any path for their build store without sacrificing on the potential for a shared build cache. I also want to have - better native support for things like building docker images - better dependency management - no build daemon - etc... I'm currently implementing sandboxing and finalizing some of the build structure, but hopi

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ng it'll be usable sometime soon.

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