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why is it called nix? unix without u (lemm.ee)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

"Nix" doesn't resemble "nichts", it's slang for the same thing in German so it has the same meaning.

I don't know which language is the source but if someone can access the nix paper to confirm that'd be great.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Footnote in the paper on page 3: The name Nix is derived from the Dutch word niks, meaning nothing; build actions do not see anything that has not been explicitly declared as an input.