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Release names are the names of frozen desserts. There's a list on Wikipedia of frozen desserts, b...

If you're experiencing an issue where a lix command appears to hang or make no visible progress, ...

Introduction This page dives into the concept of pointer equality, its role in Lix, and provides ...

This page documents the dreams of the Lix team. These are features which we have generally not ro...

This document is extremely a draft. It needs some editing and discussion before it can be made in...

Here, for now (public edit link): https://pad.lix.systems/lix-docs-planning

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nix uses libstdc++'s std::regex. it uses whatever version of libstdc++ the host system has. which...

The Nix language unfortunately is full of little and big design accidents. Only so much can be fi...

Preface STATUS: The core team has discussed this proposal, and decided that Lix will be moving in...

Draft pads: https://pad.lix.systems/lix-cli-design https://pad.lix.systems/lix-profiles

Pad: https://pad.lix.systems/VjA-WMSQS42dh-ghL98Uow

xattrs were imagined as a way to supplement/replace the SQLite database model. Unfortunately, xat...

jade: I think that we should start protocol design by thinking about who needs what information, ...

What are they? Lix doesn't have a very formal development structure - ice cream isn't a stranger ...

Discussion pad: https://pad.lix.systems/Xd5Xyt5cToyYxIv-lNdehA Further reading: https://jade.fy...

The core team has decided to freeze the Flake feature set and semantics at its current point, exc...

Thank you for choosing to help us dogfood in our daily development! If you run into any issues, y...

FIXME: this page is duplicating a lot of content from the Gerrit section and should be considered...

This guide is primarily about CppNix->Lix commit ports and was written when we were doing a lot o...