imikoy [she/her, comrade/them]

BUT CAN IT RUN CRYSIS

Yes it can

No, lead dev is marcan. Asahi Lina is a vtuber who had reverse-engineered Apple GPU and wrote the driver for it (in tandem with Alyssa Rosenzweig)

Asahi Linux is the “have linux run on apple M series CPUs” project

I wanna do Mesa because of Lina

The brain however does not want to cooperate (it wants to defrag)

Oh, I missed that! Thanks for clarification!

edit: looks like four versions, from 1.18 to 1.21

“An entire OS” - that is NixOS. Nix (package manager / build system) can and is often used standalone, on other Linux distributions, and by some on MacOS.

I cannot vouch for ease of use of Nixpkgs’ Go building facilities, but at the very least it should be possible to create a necessary environment for development and compilation of a package. Nix guarantees that it is going to be reproducible.

The main downside of using Nix would be that the declarative approach is different from the imperative one - AFAIK, there is no command to just add something to the environment (nix-shell -p does not count as it is a temporary env without a pinned Nixpkgs, so isn’t reproducible). The second would be that Nixpkgs seems to only have one version of Go and Co. at a time, so if one needs an older version of something they need to find an older version of Nixpkgs.

edit: as I have looked up, there are actually four versions of Go - “go” is 1.20, and “go_1_*” gives 1.21, 1.19 and 1.18 (on unstable Nixpkgs). I don’t know about other pieces of the environment though.