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core | nixpkgs | |
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18 | 974 | |
1,492 | 15,656 | |
2.1% | 5.3% | |
9.3 | 10.0 | |
18 days ago | 2 days ago | |
C | 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.
core
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Show HN: Pip Imports in Deno
An alternative is metacall. The example in the readme is about calling Python from Javascript, but it also works with other languages, like Ruby, C#, Java, and other languages
https://github.com/metacall/core
List of supported languages here https://github.com/metacall/core/blob/develop/docs/README.md...
In the future, maybe webidl (or extensions of it) will bring interoperability between languages too. At the moment there is https://mozilla.github.io/uniffi-rs/ for interoperability between Rust and a number of languages (basically the ones mozilla needs: Swift, Kotlin, Javascript)
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Python frontend with Zig backend
Hi, I am writing a Polyglot Runtime called MetaCall, it provides interoperability between many different languages: https://github.com/metacall/core
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Closer look at Metacall
MetaCall is an extensible, embeddable and interoperable cross-platform polyglot runtime. It supports NodeJS, Vanilla JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Ruby, C#, Java, WASM, Go, C, C++, Rust, D, Cobol.
- Make polyglot programs easily and deploy them in few clicks through its FaaS
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Google Summer of Code with GNOME Foundation.
I started looking for past selected organizations in February, found an organization named Metacall, which made polyglot programming easy. I made some contributions there. I looked into their past projects and tried to understand how the code base worked. The tech stack was mainly Python, C++, Rust, Nodejs, Docker. I knew very little about these.
- MetaCall: The Polyglot Programming Experience
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Gitpodify the MetaCall
MetaCall helps you build serverless applications using a more fine-grained, scalable and NoOps oriented Function Mesh instead of ServiceMesh and DevOps approach. It automagically converts your code into a Function Mesh and auto-scales individual hot parts or functions of your app.
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Ideas for Intermediate or Advanced Rust Projets?
We are building a Polyglot Runtime and we are adding support for Rust, if you are interested you can participate on it: https://github.com/metacall/core
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Make & Deploy Doxygen
MetaCall Polyglot Runtime MetaCall.io | Install | Docs
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Ask HN: Solo-preneurs, how do you DevOps to save time?
I try to avoid any complicated tool and simplify my life with NoOps tools. Using Kubernetes or AWS from scratch is probably going to kill your startup.
In my case, I have tried MetaCall: https://metacall.io
nixpkgs
- 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...
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GitHub Disabled the Xz Repo
True, but irrelevant -- _some packages_, _somewhere_, do depend on xz, which, if built, requires pulling the source from GitHub (see the default.nix: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-23.11/pkgs/tools...)
It's not the vulnerability that's a problem right now (NixOS was protected by a couple of factors) but rather GitHub's hamfisted response.
That is the problem.
What are some alternatives?
goja - ECMAScript/JavaScript engine in pure Go
asdf - Extendable version manager with support for Ruby, Node.js, Elixir, Erlang & more
go-python - naive go bindings to the CPython2 C-API
Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]
go-php - PHP bindings for the Go programming language (Golang)
git-lfs - Git extension for versioning large files
cel-go - Fast, portable, non-Turing complete expression evaluation with gradual typing (Go)
easyeffects - Limiter, compressor, convolver, equalizer and auto volume and many other plugins for PipeWire applications
golua - Go bindings for Lua C API - in progress
spack - A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
anko - Scriptable interpreter written in golang
waydroid - Waydroid uses a container-based approach to boot a full Android system on a regular GNU/Linux system like Ubuntu.