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by 0x69420 658 days ago
was wondering when this guy would drop a video on nix. pleasantly surprised by the result, although i do find it funny that he had to go well over the usual 100 seconds. that's nix for you.

one benefit that doesn't get much lipservice in elevator pitches for nix, here included, is the experience of packaging. i think the average line count in my personal collection of obscure software is ~30, and that's including license/homepage metadata and other such junk -- it can make even bsd portfiles look tubby by comparison.
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viraptor 658 days ago
> over the usual 100 seconds

It's a running joke now. There hasn't been a "100 seconds" video shorter than 2 minutes in a long time. Most are around 3min.

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ronef 654 days ago
As a Nix foundation person - If anyone gets a 100 second pitch for Nix, dinners on me and I'm using it in the Nix marketing efforts :D

Agreed on the packaging experience for nix. We've been talking about that for a while also on the Flox side when we're working with folks.

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