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		bfrog on July 11, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lix 2.90 "Vanilla Ice Cream" You linked to it, and its repo is nix, the description is "Nix, the purely functional package manager" I see no mention of CppNix other than from certain detractors.

goldsteinq on July 25, 2024 [–]

It’s just a way to distinguish a language from its implementation, similar to Python / CPython, or Rust / rustc, or C / gcc. Yes, officially they’re both named Nix, but that’s not helpful when you’re trying to discuss alternative implementations: “Nix implements Nix” just sounds like a tautology.

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