refactor(web/tvl/blog): Update Tvix intro blog post
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@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ experiments](https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/1123/) aimed at improving
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the current evaluator and fought [gnarly
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bugs](https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/1504).
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After a while we realised that we are treading water: Some of our
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After a while we realised that we were treading water: Some of our
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ideas are too architecturally divergent from Nix to be done on top of
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the existing codebase, and the memory model of Nix causes significant
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headaches when trying to do any kind of larger change.
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@ -38,10 +38,6 @@ whiteboard in a small flat in Hurghada, Egypt.
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![flokli & tazjin brainstorming](https://static.tvl.fyi/latest/files/flokli_tazjin_tvix.webp)
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Half a year later we are now ready to announce our new project:
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**Tvix**, a re-imagined Nix with full nixpkgs compatibility. Tvix is
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generously funded [by NLNet](https://nlnet.nl/project/Tvix/) (thanks!)
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The [Tvix
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architecture](https://code.tvl.fyi/about/tvix/docs/components.md) is
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designed to be modular: It should be possible to write an evaluator
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that plugs in the Guix language, to use arbitrary builders, and to
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replace the store implementation.
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that plugs in the Guile language (for compatibility with GNU Guix), to
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use arbitrary builders, and to replace the store implementation.
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Tvix has these high-level goals:
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* Creating an alternative implementation of Nix that is **fully
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compatible with nixpkgs**, as we believe that most of the value of
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Nix currently lives in the massive amount of community contributions
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to nixpkgs.
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* A new Nix language implementation with a more efficient interpreter,
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and without the strict separation between evaluation and build
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phases
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compatible with nixpkgs**.
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The package collection is an enormous effort with hundreds of
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thousands of commits, encoding expert knowledge about lots of
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different software and ways of building and managing it. It is a
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very valuable piece of software and we must be able to reuse it.
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* More efficient Nix language evaluation, leading to greatly increased
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performance.
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* No more strict separation of evaluation and build phases: Generating
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Nix data structures from build artefacts ("IFD") should be supported
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first-class and not incur significant performance cost.
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* Well-defined interaction protocols for how the three different
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components (evaluator, builder, store) interact.
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* A builder implementation using OCI instead of custom sandboxing
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code.
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![adisbladis & tazjin brainstorming](https://static.tvl.fyi/latest/files/adisbladis_tazjin_tvix.webp)
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Tvix is not intended to *replace* Nix, instead we want to improve the
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ecosystem by offering a diversity of implementations. However, we do
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not intend to support experimental features.
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ecosystem by offering a diversity of implementations. We do not intend
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to support experimental features that are being developed in Nix.
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As things ramp up we will be posting more information on this blog,
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for now you can keep an eye on
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[`//tvix`](https://cs.tvl.fyi/depot/-/tree/tvix) in the TVL monorepo,
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subscribe to [our feed](https://tvl.fyi/feed.atom).
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[`//tvix`](https://cs.tvl.fyi/depot/-/tree/tvix) in the TVL monorepo
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and subscribe to [our feed](https://tvl.fyi/feed.atom).
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Stay tuned!
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