templates VS awesome-nix

Unless you want to handwire something together or use another higher level function from some 3rd party library, your want to use this function. It is basically the entrypoint to a flake based nixos system configuration. See https://github.com/NixOS/templates/blob/master/simple-container/flake.nix for an example.

There are some templates on the official repository. https://github.com/NixOS/templates You can find others on github.

Don’t forget about the official templates. Built right into the CLI https://github.com/NixOS/templates

I am new to nix, and even newer when it comes to using flakes. I was trying out the following simple flake (based on this template), which just terminates with a segmentation fault whenever I use --impure flag (e.g. nix develop --impure)

You would probably want to use flakes. There is NixOS/templates repo with flake templates. Take a look at go-hello one.

You should consider adding this as a template to https://github.com/nixos/templates.

For Nix, consider checking out the resources found under the caption "Learning" on the Awesome Nix Github page. Though, personally, I really enjoyed Zero to Nix.

Yeah nix/guix is a whole nother universe and I'm not familiar with it, there's a ton of good resources out there though: https://github.com/nix-community/awesome-nix

Maybe this should be added to awesome-nix.

Possibly something like this should be added to https://github.com/nix-community/awesome-nix (I don't see a Flakes section on there)

Learn NixOS and Awesome Nix are probably good starting points.

I would also look at https://github.com/nix-community/awesome-nix