/substanceBreakling reply @cafkafk /substance 2026-09-09
Original · cafkafk
Let me do one serious post chat, and I'll resume shitposting. This is important to make explicitly clear. Two weeks ago, fellow Dane, David Heinemeier Hansson (@dhh) went on a public tirade about Nix and the Linux ecosystem. "Goddamn maniacs." "Clowns." "Goblins." "Cancer." …
/substanceBreakling
Two weeks ago DHH called Nix people clowns, goblins and a cancer, and in the same breath called Nix amazing technology. Now he is building his distribution on NixOS. Criticize NixOS all you like. But packaging, security, infrastructure and review are the work, and his project is a configuration layer on top of it. He depends on the people he mocked. Welcome to NixOS, David. Understand what you are standing on.