itoa
nixpkgs
itoa | nixpkgs | |
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2 | 975 | |
278 | 15,753 | |
- | 2.8% | |
6.8 | 10.0 | |
16 days ago | 4 days ago | |
Rust | Nix | |
Apache License 2.0 | MIT License |
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
itoa
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Potential problem with the package manager
The hyper package for the crab language actually has a dependency on a package that does itoa (among others) so IMO the problem exist there too and most non trivial packages will be bloated
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Debian discusses vendoring again
I see itoa which seems trivial on the surface. The implementation is highly optimized, but it's also covering all the different cases. I'm guessing this is for printing match counts or line numbers, and if this is actually a bottleneck for ripgrep — which seems unlikely — then maybe it's worth it. You know your own needs, and if it was a bottleneck, I bet you could do just as well, if not better, with a custom, smaller, simpler solution inside ripgrep. (i.e. just make sure the power-of-ten denominators are available at compile time so the compiler won't generate divisions.)
nixpkgs
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Nix: The Breaking Point
I don't think so. The article is probably intended for the Nix community, so the author doesn't need to convince HN that something is going on. If as an outsider you are interested then you need to look into it yourself, the community has no obligation to make their internal conflicts legible to the outside world.
As an outsider myself, it certainly looks like something is going on as more than 20 Nixpkg maintainers left in a week: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues?q=label%3A%228.has%3...
- Maintainers Leaving
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Air Force picks Anduril, General Atomics to develop unmanned fighter jets
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commits?author=neon-sunset
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Eelco Dolstra's leadership is corrosive to the Nix project
I see two signers in the top 6 displayed on https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/graphs/contributors
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3rd Edition of Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++ by Stroustrup
For a single file script, nix can make the package management quite easy: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/doc/languages-f...
For example,
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- NixOS/nixpkgs: There isn't a clear canonical way to refer to a specific package
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NixOS Is Not Reproducible
Yes, Nix doesn't actually ensure that the builds are deterministic. In fact it works just fine if they aren't. There are packages in nixpkgs that aren't reproducible: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aiss...
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The xz attack shell script
I'm not familiar with Bazel, but Nix in it's current form wouldn't have solved this attack. First of all, the standard mkDerivation function calls the same configure; make; make install process that made this attack possible. Nixpkgs regularly pulls in external resources (fetchUrl and friends) that are equally vulnerable to a poisoned release tarball. Checkout the comment on the current xz entry in nixpkgs https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/tools/comp...
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Debian Git Monorepo
NixOS uses a monorepo and I think everyone's love it.
I love being able to easily grep through all the packages source code and there's regularly PRs that harmonizes conventions across many packages.
Nixpkgs doesn't include the packaged software source code, so it's a lot more practical than what Debian is doing.
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs
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From xz to ibus: more questionable tarballs
In this specific case, nix uses fetchFromGitHub to download the source archive, which are generated by GitHub for the specified revision[1]. Arch seems to just download the tarball from the releases page[2].
[1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/3c2fdd0a4e6396fc310a6e...
[2]: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/ib...
What are some alternatives?
perl5 - 🐪 The Perl programming language
asdf - Extendable version manager with support for Ruby, Node.js, Elixir, Erlang & more
fst - Represent large sets and maps compactly with finite state transducers.
Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]
rust-fnv - Fowler–Noll–Vo hash function
git-lfs - Git extension for versioning large files
ucd-generate - A command line tool to generate Unicode tables as source code.
easyeffects - Limiter, compressor, convolver, equalizer and auto volume and many other plugins for PipeWire applications
unicode-xid
spack - A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
rust-base64 - base64, in rust
waydroid - Waydroid uses a container-based approach to boot a full Android system on a regular GNU/Linux system like Ubuntu.