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Re:Remacs – A community-driven port of Emacs to Rust by taktoa on Sunday July 16, 2017 @10:21PM (#14785240)
Nix(OS) is basically that... If only we could get upstream to start building with Nix
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Re:Remacs – A community-driven port of Emacs to Rust by curun1r on Monday July 17, 2017 @01:05AM (#14785816)
Ugh...no. I tried Nix until I found that all packages that depended on OpenSSL were broken on OS X. I checked for a bug report and found that one had been filed and sat open and unfixed for 18 months. Given that this bug makes Nix basically unusable on OS X, it seems like developers of Nix are uninterested in becoming anything resembling a universal package manager.

Meanwhile, cargo works flawlessly on every system I've tried (Linux, Mac and Windows). Sure, it only compiles Rust programs, but there's no way that I'd advocate moving those programs to a package manager with as little regard for such a large part of its potential userbase.

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Re:Remacs – A community-driven port of Emacs to Rust by ethelward on Monday July 17, 2017 @05:54AM (#14786991)
> Given that this bug makes Nix basically unusable on OS X, it seems like developers of Nix are uninterested in becoming anything resembling a universal package manager.

Or that they just don't have enough manpower to actually support all the platforms.

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