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Re:Open sourcing Pixie under Apache 2.0 license by jhgb on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @05:33PM (#27056094)
Presumably a completely different Pixie from the open-source one at https://sourceforge.net/projects/pixie/ ?
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Re:Open sourcing Pixie under Apache 2.0 license by Agentlien on Thursday May 06, 2021 @12:07AM (#27059078)
It's interesting to see these names which are used by several projects.

When I saw Pixie my first thought was the component of PIX[0] which installs itself on the Xbox.

[0] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/pix

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Re:Open sourcing Pixie under Apache 2.0 license by pabs3 on Thursday May 06, 2021 @12:30AM (#27059188)
Pixie gets a lot of use both within tech and outside of it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixie_(disambiguation)

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Re:Open sourcing Pixie under Apache 2.0 license by wedesoft on Thursday May 06, 2021 @05:03AM (#27060732)
Yes, I also was confused because this Pixie [1] already is open source.

[1]: https://pixielang.org/

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Re:Open sourcing Pixie under Apache 2.0 license by nserrino on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @05:45PM (#27056214)
Correct, this project is unaffiliated with that one.
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Re:Open sourcing Pixie under Apache 2.0 license by kungito on Thursday May 06, 2021 @05:27AM (#27060883)
I thought of https://www.pixijs.com/
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