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Re:Nix 2.24 is vulnerable to (remote) privilege escalation by eviks on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @04:37AM (#41498568)
Because it's written in C++ and the fork plans to rewrite in Rust?
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Re:Nix 2.24 is vulnerable to (remote) privilege escalation by Macha on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @08:26AM (#41500054)
Also there's too many things called Nix.

There's the overall project, the language, and the primary interpretation. It's also why you'll sometimes see nixlang to refer to the language.

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Re:Nix 2.24 is vulnerable to (remote) privilege escalation by forgotpwd16 on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @08:50AM (#41500240)
Thought was the norm using capitalized for language and lower case for the tooling. So Nix/nix, like AWK/awk and Go/go.
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Re:Nix 2.24 is vulnerable to (remote) privilege escalation by Macha on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @09:05AM (#41500403)
Full caps AWK feels like a relic from the screaming UNIX days, and golang for Go is incredibly common (and as far as I can tell, the proximate cause of the nixlang term)
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Re:Nix 2.24 is vulnerable to (remote) privilege escalation by eviks on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @10:45AM (#41501315)
Then there is also golang
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Re:Nix 2.24 is vulnerable to (remote) privilege escalation by otabdeveloper4 on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @08:55AM (#41500318)
> fork plans to rewrite in Rust

Lmao. Won't ever happen.

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Re:Nix 2.24 is vulnerable to (remote) privilege escalation by RaitoBezarius on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @10:40AM (#41501269)
https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix/src/branch/main/src/...
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Re:Nix 2.24 is vulnerable to (remote) privilege escalation by marshycity on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @07:16PM (#41506614)
oh?
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