enemenemu@lemm.ee to Nix / NixOS@programming.devEnglish · 11 days agowhy is it called nix? unix without umessage-squaremessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down11
arrow-up17arrow-down1message-squarewhy is it called nix? unix without uenemenemu@lemm.ee to Nix / NixOS@programming.devEnglish · 11 days agomessage-square15fedilink
minus-squareInnerScientist@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·edit-211 days ago“Nix” doesn’t resemble “nichts”, it’s slang for the same thing in German so it has the same meaning. I don’t know which language is the source but if someone can access the nix paper to confirm that’d be great.
minus-squareblackschild@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·9 days agoFootnote in the paper on page 3: The name Nix is derived from the Dutch word niks, meaning nothing; build actions do not see anything that has not been explicitly declared as an input.
“Nix” doesn’t resemble “nichts”, it’s slang for the same thing in German so it has the same meaning.
I don’t know which language is the source but if someone can access the nix paper to confirm that’d be great.
Footnote in the paper on page 3: The name Nix is derived from the Dutch word niks, meaning nothing; build actions do not see anything that has not been explicitly declared as an input.