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I’ve written a lot about the Nix build system over the past decade, but one complaint I keep coming across is that Nix requires dependency constraints to be “solved manually”. This is a sort of category-error: sure, it’s true that Nix doesn’t “solve dependency constraints”; in the same way that, say, /usr/bin/env do...

We’ve open sourced DotSlash, a tool that makes large executables available in source control with a negligible impact on repository size, thus avoiding I/O-heavy clone operations. With DotSlash, a set of platform-specific executables is replaced with a single script containing descriptors for the supported platforms...