Yixe: The superior approach to declarative package management

[hexa]

https://samuel.dionne-riel.com/blog/2025/04/01/be-not-afraid-for-i-have-solved-nix.html

[rhendric]

Ugh, you genuinely got me. I was getting pretty worked up until I clicked through to the repo.

[mightyiam]

Flagged for linking to an alternative

[hexa]

Thank you, @samueldr. You drove this quite far and made it sound convincing until the very end!

https://samuel.dionne-riel.com/blog/2025/04/02/mea-culpa.html

Thanks for the good laugh!

[samueldr]

For those who did not look into it at all, it does work as advertised. This is dogfoodable shitpost. (YMMV.)

[anglesideangle]

devops cargo cultists might actually use this if you don’t tell them it’s nix