cargo2nix
Granular builds of Rust projects for Nix (by cargo2nix)
rust-nix-template
Rust project template with Nix (Flakes) and VSCode support (by srid)
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| cargo2nix | rust-nix-template | |
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| 12 | 2 | |
| 325 | 177 | |
| 11.1% | - | |
| 6.7 | 7.0 | |
| 13 days ago | 2 days ago | |
| Nix | Nix | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
cargo2nix
Posts with mentions or reviews of cargo2nix.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-02.
- Transitioning to Rust as a company
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Way to get NVM working in CI/CD systems
- Rust projects are built with https://github.com/cargo2nix/cargo2nix. We chose cargo2nix to get incremental builds, meaning that dependency builds can be shared between our Rust projects and that not all dependencies have to be rebuilt when adding/updating/removing dependencies from a project.
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[Blog post]: Scaling Rust builds with Bazel
We used cargo2nix to generate top-level Cargo.nix file that we committed to the repository (we didn't allow generating nix files on CI for security and reproducibility reasons).
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Nix & Rust - cargo2nix 0.11.0 released
There's a cross compile example that works for at least 3-4 targets on Linux and uses proc macros. Pretty sure the situation you described is no more complex.
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Rust nix develop & nix build - cargo2nix 0.11.0 released
Release notes. Last announced release was 0.9.0.
- Nix and NixOS Get So Close to Perfect
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How Go Mitigates Supply Chain Attacks
Nix already solves this problem and can handle dependencies and building projects across a range of languages (including Rust via Cargo2nix) and reproducible machine configuration.
- From nix-shell to nix develop
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Is using crates more safe than using npm?
Building with nix, for instance with cargo2nix (https://github.com/cargo2nix/cargo2nix), could be safer if sandboxing is enabled.
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Nix-ifying a Rust project
cargo2nix
rust-nix-template
Posts with mentions or reviews of rust-nix-template.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-08.
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Introducing Crane: Composable and Cacheable Builds with Cargo and Nix
I probably should switch over https://github.com/srid/rust-nix-template to this.
- rust-nix-template: Rust project template with Nix and VSCode support
What are some alternatives?
When comparing cargo2nix and rust-nix-template you can also consider the following projects:
naersk - Build Rust projects in Nix - no configuration, no code generation, no IFD, sandbox friendly.
home-manager - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee] [Moved to: https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager]
rust-overlay - Pure and reproducible nix overlay of binary distributed rust toolchains
Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]
crate2nix - rebuild only changed crates in CI with crate2nix and nix
Cargo - The Rust package manager
haskell-template - Haskell project template using Nix + Flakes + VSCode (HLS)
watt - Runtime for executing procedural macros as WebAssembly
nixpkgs - Nix Packages collection & NixOS
nix-templates - Nix Flake templates for various languages
cargo2nix vs naersk
rust-nix-template vs home-manager
cargo2nix vs rust-overlay
rust-nix-template vs Home Manager using Nix
cargo2nix vs crate2nix
rust-nix-template vs crate2nix
cargo2nix vs Cargo
rust-nix-template vs haskell-template
cargo2nix vs watt
rust-nix-template vs nixpkgs
cargo2nix vs nix-templates
rust-nix-template vs rust-overlay