alt Hacker NewsBack to Nix again? I remember one of their employees had a great video series on it, but then they stopped using it because it was too complicated.
Back to Nix again? I remember one of their employees had a great video series on it, but then they stopped using it because it was too complicated.
Yeah, they gave a talk about it at NixCon last year:
https://talks.nixcon.org/nixcon-2025/talk/UPHTPD/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYzjKCIqUVk
I don't remember all of the details, so if you're curious you should watch the talk. :)
But IIRC the main points that differentiated this new effort from the old one were that (1) there was buy-in from the very top of the company, (2) they took a more incremental approach where the old one was more all-or-nothing, and (3) they tackled the edge cases and hardest repos first.
The talk includes some info about the failings of their first effort as well. It's worth a watch.