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by nbp 4mo ago
And when it happens, that there are new Nix features used in Nixpkgs, then you can download the closure for the new Nix executable, directly from the build farm, and update your OS from this new Nix version.
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by nbp 4y ago
My thinking is that this is long overdue! I am working on a very large project where multiple solutions have been invented to solve problem which are all handled by Nix: - Bake in the repository the clone of the dependencies. - Compile the
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by nbp 4y ago
"attribute grammar" and "novel" in the same statement? Whoa! I tried to publish a paper ~15 years ago on attribute grammars … without success and non-constructive review feedback. I am not aware of any company making us
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by nbp 4y ago
“[…] by virtue of the combined share of Chromium-based browsers, will be a de facto standard for browser […]” — i.e. The web is dead. Please consider switching to a non-Chromium-based browser if you want it back.
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Principles of Just-in-Time Compilers(nbp.github.io)
3 points by nbp 5y ago|1 comments
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by nbp 5y ago
This presentation describes the high-level principles of Just-In-Time compilers. It was made for the GlobalScope '21 (a JavaScript online conference) and contains the transcript. This was used as a prompter while recording this talk, a
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by nbp 13y ago
Nix can do that, you can easily use nix-env to create a new profile instead of using the default one stored in ~/.nix-profile . I am using multiple tool-chains stored in multiple profiles for my development process.