I’ve been hopping around Gentoo and Void the past few days with musl on both, and I’ll be going back to NixOS in a bit due to not having enough time to set up either of them. I’ve realised how little RAM either systems use on musl, though, and I was wondering if there is any chance of replacing glibc with musl on NixOS?

  • ck_
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    11 months ago

    This technically exists but practically #musl is a third class citizen on #NixOS. They don’t run a hydra test set for package builds so core packages break all the time, dragging down the whole system. Until there is an actual musl community forming in the NixOS space, I doubt anyone will have a good time using it for a complex system build. Also keep in mind that there is no binary cache for musl builds (as far as I know), so if a core package gets an update, there goes your weekend. Due to the concepts of #Nix you basically run an emerge --empty-tree on a regular basis.