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Nix is a package manager, a declarative domain specific language (DSL) and a Linux distribution. The package manager runs on Linux, Windows WSL2, and macOS. Nix solves developer & DevOps problems with reproducibility and sharing configurations. Creating a Docker /Kubernetes container doesn't mean it is highly reproducible. At least not without great caution and effort. Here's the rub; Nix can build your container images ensuring they are reproducible. You can also avoid YAML / JSON. Nix is ideal for developer environments. You can drop a flake.nix file in your project repo, declaring all your packages and dependencies plus tooling. When you clone the repo and cd into the project root, the flake.nix will be executed with direnv. It will install everything and configure it. This way you can have a global tool chain (IDE, lang, libs, modules, tools) but when inside your project dir you only see what you need for the project. There will be no conflicts, you can run older incompatible tools. When you exit the project repo, POOF your environment disappears. When you cd back in it is recreated. Garbage collection which can be automated will clean up unused packages and afterwards they would have to re-install. The fatal flaw is the Nix steep learning curve (which should begin to improve soon). The wiki was recently rebuilt with ownership returning to the Nix project. This should speed up improved documentation in future. There's several other learning resources but yes, it's still quite a steep climb. Nix can be one language to rule them all, declaring your environment and tools. Including any ISO, VM, Container, etc. It can also cross-compile for different architectures. Nix Home Manager can configure userland, dotfiles, etc. The creator / founder of Nix, Electo Dolstra, founded Determinate Systems a corporate entity providing commercial support and training. Some Nix improvements are to be found on Determinate Systems. They built a macOS pkg for Nix so you can install it on macOS systems using MDM solutions. They solved the problem with macOS updates breaking NIx. They implemented FlakeHub w/Cache. Much more to come. determinate.systems/ There are plenty of edge cases where containers are necessary / required and Nix can certainly accommodate managing Docker / Kubernetes / LXD / VM / systemd-nspawn containers. It's not either / or as Nix can compliment your existing container creation with far more reliable reproducibility.

This could be a good use of AI. The old guys can brain dump their domain knowledge into the AI and the AI could turn it into proper documentation and/or be available for new people to consult directly.

He is right, that's why I used Slackware.

Illinois Mono is the only font that doesn't suck. It's the most readable.

June 2024: This is still totally not true buuuut, Python 3.13 pre-release seems promising. The introduction of a experimental jit compiler may be the stepping stone for high-performance python in the future. It will not be as fast as Rust or Go but it might suffice some cases.

do not forget MidRange live IBMi.... All the IBM shops IBMz, IBMp and IBMi. Remember JCL on IBMz .

As someone that worked with Matteo in the same company for a couple of years.. I wanna point out that he is kinda pissing in his own backyard. Alot of the Node.JS stuff like running single process in lambdas and shit were also propagated by him when it first hit the market and it was decided to move into it. And as he decided best practice indirectly by pushing his opinions both on the community of node.js but also in the role he has for the development of that language. And as someone that was in the position to essentially do whatever the fuck he wanted on a daily basis and he decided more than often to never listen to his coworkers. Or people with more experience in the field of infra deployment and understanding those technologies. More or less all the performance issues with single thread lambdas / functions can be mitigated by stop using Async and move back into a event driven pattern.. A pattern that got abandoned due to convenience more than anything else. ECMA is literally made for Event driven code its a fundamental part of the language, and node.js decides to abstract it away to make the developer experience more.. Java like?

I'm with you on that!

Are you kidding me ? less code with Rust ?

Ok Richard Gere

When I was young I became aware of his accomplishments as I learned unix in the early 80s. But I was surprised that he had the brain bandwidth to invent a hardware / software hybrid chess computer. And it would beat 4.7 (or 4.9 whatever). Most people are not going to be so creative in a few short years. Donald Knuth would be the other one that comes to mind.

Rats bite everything - fabric, food, even electric cables. They are not nice to have around.

Making the first way just seems like when good sense leaves the door. "Oh, lets do stuff in this place without the owner's approval..."

The problem is that you can learn COBOL pretty easy.....but nobody is "training" new kids on the systems that actually run the COBOL code. It ain't like macOS.

Desktops always! A laptop is just for remoting into my desktop

most probably a big company like microsoft will acquire zed and convert it to vs code😂

Cybernetics is not for everyone, no ever CEO can understand that.

Is domain knowledge as important as COBOL knowledge for anyone aspiring/seeking fortune in this field?

I am young enough to only have had laptops for all my software jobs. It boggles my mind to think of what it would've been like to have a desktop at work, and what that would mean when being on-call 😅

if they are going to pay, I all to learn COBOL, FORTRAN or whever. But the money and all usual perks have to be there

The most unprofessional jack arse...

I worked the helpdesk at TAMU in the 90's and helped debug COBOL on IBM 3090's. I remember columns mattered, and things needed to end in a semi-colon.

I worked for multiple mainframe teams at a large Canadian Bank. They had zero interest on moving anything off the mainframe, they did this to themselves. I literally built intermediary API systems to interface the mainframe in a distributed way rather than actually moving off those mainframes. They were paying retired employees multiple 6 figures to come back and maintain systems because they need the subject matter expertise AND the COBOL understanding.

I feel like it’s missing discussion. Even a quick personal hot take or opinion on some of the stories would add a lot to the enjoyment. Keep up the great work.

Nice interview. Uploaded about 10 years later...? What about a new interview and hearing how things went and where to go from here -- with much more competition in the ergo/ split keyboard market nowadays.

i love this new language. will deff listen to the entire pod

That is Richard Stallmans critique of “open source”. Its main “selling” point is to claim that it is better than proprietary software (and in some cases that is true), but people who only value practicality will give it up as soon as something better, open source or proprietary comes along. Free software is of course intended to be useful, but it is “sold” mainly for moral reasons, that free software respects its users freedom and privacy. Unfortunately I haven’t anyone talk about free software for the past 15 years, ever since the world went mobile/cloud.

Duno, the experience is like FFI, without the C interface. But the compile once, run without JVM everywhere, is pleasant.

A true internet gem.

What a gem of podcast I found here

Guys, you talk about Gleam, but don't put a link to its website in the vid description.

What is it about prompt engineers new popularity and potential that scares the shit out of you? It may as well be racist of you. No you know what... It is.

I always have the impression that Google is pushing Rust a lot more than Go

htop is bae

Can't wait until its self hosted, I'd like to mess around and make some basic egui apps.

Hi! I'm font designer. I designed Manas, Cumhuriyet etc. Now I'm designing two tyoe families for programmers.

I wish there was a way to solve this. I‘be had too many bad client experiences and I’m over it.

I ❤ C++ 1989.

Ah, it's funny how Andreas dislikes the one thing I feel Rust got entirely right. 😅

Interesting soundtrack. What is that??

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The fatal flaw in my opinion isn't a design flaw but a unfortunate reality, that since nixos is different from everything else it doesn't follow the standard structure for a linux system making some things harder, for example not being able to run ELF files directly or even appimages directly because of dynamically linked libraries not being where they are expected to be.

Hard agree, i think becoming popular with shell and the filesystem, its a halfway unfun thing to learn but install arch, u will have to rollback packages, consult logs, create hooks, create ut wifi configs in /etc, etc like... being able to navigatw in base POSIX well and understand components is super valuable. Servers, everyday for understanding, everday for effficiency

Smart TV vs (Dumb TV + TV box) Cloud software vs Locally hosted software Digital ownership vs Physical copy ownership Repairability vs whatever Apple and others are doing now

Being able to keeo develop without breaking olde feature is important factor in development.

To be fair, I only learned what rizz (or ris) means the other day. A benefit of having a child, they can translate for me.

First comment 🎉

Sad. But true.

Companies don't want programmers, been looking for a programming job for 13 years.