Could the nix target ever be upstreamed as an official part of Gleam?

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Fork of the Gleam compiler providing a Nix backend, compiling Gleam to Nix

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Could the nix target ever be upstreamed as an official part of Gleam? #6

Open evelant opened 5 months ago

evelant commented 5 months ago

I just discovered Gleam and this project. I love nix but not the language (a common sentiment I think) so this project appeals greatly to me! Is it possible that the nix target could be made an official target of the main Gleam project? Gleam already has 2 targets, why not a 3rd? Being an official target in Gleam might bring a lot more attention and users to this project and Gleam in general.

PgBiel commented 5 months ago

I'd love it if that were possible, but this is currently not aligned with the Gleam maintainers' goals. Which is fair, because maintaining 2 targets is already lots of work! Maybe in the future there could be further talks about this, but this probably won't happen anytime soon.