Re:macOS Nix setup: an alternative to Homebrew (2020)
by mekster on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @06:47AM
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Why run npm on the wrong OS? It can easily break building a binary for a wrong platform.
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Re:macOS Nix setup: an alternative to Homebrew (2020)
by mikepurvis on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @03:27PM
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Not sure exactly what the situation was here, but if it was an NTFS folder from Windows shared into the VM/WSL, then you are indeed running the npm operation in the inner system but paying the cost of writing thousands of tiny files across that translation layer.