"So you want to write a package manager"https://medium.com/@sdboyer/so-you-want-to-write-a-package-manager-4ae9c17d9527#.740o43vxi …
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well shit man, i'm down to try. it might turn out to be folly, but we should at least *figure that out*
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honestly, when you get past quibbling about basic things like lockfiles and into solving problems like preferred versions 1/
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you've graduating into a small group of people capable of making progress in this field of study 2/2
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one thing I'm interested in these days is trying to understand nix's worldview better, because gps/cargo/bundler/etc stop short 1/
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before fully solving determinism in a general way. this is needed to actually ship, but integrating with a more general system 2/
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like nix should really be easier than it is for package managers that already have a value in predictability 3/3
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nix is...so interesting. i need to spend more time with it, but it betrays its sys-pkg-mgr roots quickly http://sandervanderburg.blogspot.com/2014/10/deploying-npm-packages-with-nix-package.html …
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and I'm a strong believer in incrementally improving things; stopping my work to do a boil-the-ocean solution is not my style. ;)
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