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<rekado>“tg run” is an interesting idea that I think wouldn’t have made it past our objections

<rekado>there are many packages that have more than one executable, so it wouldn’t be clear which one to execute

<rekado>it does save a few keystrokes for the common case, though, so maybe it’s not a bad idea

<drakonis>nix has that

<drakonis>it is very strongly inspired by nix

<drakonis>zero guix influence in there

<nckx>Ey, neat.

<rekado>the command at the very bottom looks guixy

<rekado>but yes, all that javascript looks very nix-like

<drakonis>that command in the bottom follows the new nix cli

<drakonis>or maybe just nix-shell but no dashes there

<drakonis>since -p is used to refer to a package

<rekado>curious that there’s no link to source code

<rekado>or documentation

<drakonis>still contains the rust code from the project it was originally spun off

<drakonis>the repository is private

<drakonis>but seeing that it has copious amounts of nix there

<drakonis>no doubt about its inspirations

<drakonis>its made by a startup it seems

<rekado>ugh, a software project as a product of a startup – rings all the bells

<drakonis>i went into their discord and lol

<drakonis>also they made a content addressed filesystem for it

<drakonis>this is going to be terrible

<rekado>but it’s going to have lots of buzz

<rekado>might have to deal with it sooner or later because of PR

<drakonis>i find it to be difficult to have lots of buzz right now

<drakonis>there's no source

<drakonis>i found it entirely by accident while reading comments on lobsters

<rekado>funding means PR will follow.

<rekado>I’m jaded and cynical, but in my experience that’s where most of the money goes.

<rekado>that’s not necessarily bad

<rekado>it’s just something that free software projects usually don’t do well

<rekado>startups have a much stronger incentive to appear better than their product would imply

<drakonis>it does promise some nifty things, but it stands to be seen

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