I’ve been putting in some work towards making nix adoption practical in the robotics/ros ecosystem recently. This update diminishes my confidence that nix (the lgpl licensed project) with flakes will remain stable and actively developed for the next decade+. Specifically, I am concerned that the differing processes of stabilization and adding features between cppnix and determinant systems’ fork will lead to a split ecosystem, especially since the downstream fork seems to be adding features that aren’t in the upstream. I don’t want to tell an entire developer community to depend on an open core technology, or one that has a hazy future.
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