sandro, 14 days ago

@squirrelroad 🤷
Also aux seems to be just a community which primary goal is rebranding?

dwagenk, 16 days ago

@squirrelroad they cover different parts of forking efforts. Before the lix announcement the aux group was discussing how/what parts of nix and the nixcpp implementation of it would need to be forked. Apparently everybody there is very happy lix has been announced.

Personally I find the naming distinction very helpful. Instead of a NixOS system declared in nix (the language) and using nixpkgs package definitions all of these will have distinct names (auxpkgs, lix language)

sandro, 14 days ago

@dwagenk @squirrelroad I don't see how replacing nix with different 3 letters in all terms would solve the naming quirk.

Also IMO that's not such a big issue. Most languages have a language and compiler/interpreter which is named the same.