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Nix and buck2: from enemies to lovers with snowydeer (lixcon2026)
Nix does dependencies and distribution well, but has a controlling personality: it wants to build everything in the build graph. Buck2 delivers fast,…
6 months ago
To sleep in a sea of Tests | Refactoring a testing "framework" from hell (lixcon2026)
Taking a look at the `functional` test suite, pointing out its concepts and flaws to then take a look at its successor `functional2` Many curses and …
6 months ago
Regiux: prototyping a fast Nix interpreter (lixcon2026)
The Nix expression language is challenging to evaluate due to non-strict semantics, dynamic scoping, a diverse collection of builtin operators, and t…
6 months ago
Regiux: prototyping a fast Nix interpreter (lixcon2026)
The Nix expression language is challenging to evaluate due to non-strict semantics, dynamic scoping, a diverse collection of builtin operators, and t…
6 months ago
The politics of language design (lixcon2026)
This talk is about Elpe, a mixture of ideas from Nix, Docker and Ubuntu/Debian/RHEL, with a strong focus on performance and security. I'll talk about…
6 months ago
The politics of language design (lixcon2026)
This talk is about Elpe, a mixture of ideas from Nix, Docker and Ubuntu/Debian/RHEL, with a strong focus on performance and security. I'll talk about…
6 months ago
The untapped potential of Lix plugins (lixcon2026)
Lix plugins — a feature so esoteric none yet remember their existence. What power could they hold? What secrets could they unlock? Let's discover tog…
6 months ago
The untapped potential of Lix plugins (lixcon2026)
Lix plugins — a feature so esoteric none yet remember their existence. What power could they hold? What secrets could they unlock? Let's discover tog…
6 months ago
Botanix: A Nix native CI in a forge-agnostic world (lixcon2026)
Botanix is a new CI software that targets a native nix integration as it builds derivations as its pipeline. It integrates natively with both Gerrit …
6 months ago
Botanix: A Nix native CI in a forge-agnostic world (lixcon2026)
Botanix is a new CI software that targets a native nix integration as it builds derivations as its pipeline. It integrates natively with both Gerrit …
6 months ago