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"we've also functioned without one for ~20 years" I'm sorry to say that this is a highly ignorant reaction to the situation. Nixpkgs was nowhere the size it is
by dindresto 1mo ago
"we've also functioned without one for ~20 years"
I'm sorry to say that this is a highly ignorant reaction to the situation. Nixpkgs was nowhere the size it is now in terms of contributors and packages, the growth in the past six years was enormous.
- gcarvalho 1mo agoI don't mean to be dismissive of the work done by the team which just resigned, and hope they get back on their feet. But also out of those 6y the core team did not exist for ~5y, apparently. How is it a highly ignorant reaction?
- dindresto 1mo agoThe amount of monthly contributions has doubled in the last four years alone, from ~7k to ~14k commits per month. Why did I take six years as a reference? Because 2020 is the year nixpkgs really started to pick up traction, and the growth has been almost linear ever since. Your argument only holds if I were to say "it grew to its current amount of monthly contributions in 2020 and then stayed constant, without growing any further."