cargo2nix
Granular builds of Rust projects for Nix (by cargo2nix)
watt
Runtime for executing procedural macros as WebAssembly (by dtolnay)
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| cargo2nix | watt | |
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| 12 | 21 | |
| 325 | 1,222 | |
| 11.1% | - | |
| 6.7 | 7.3 | |
| 13 days ago | 12 days ago | |
| Nix | Rust | |
| MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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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
watt
Posts with mentions or reviews of watt.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-19.
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Rust devs push back as Serde project ships precompiled binaries
The precompiled binary is not a sandboxed WASM binary. Despite the name "watt" it has nothing to do with https://github.com/dtolnay/watt . You can look at the actual code to see for yourself.
- Arbitrary code execution during compilation – rust
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syn v2.0.0 released
* Related: watt is one approach to pre-compile proc-macro crates using WASM.
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My first year with Rust: The good, the bad, the ugly
In addition to thiserror and anyhow, our resident superhuman Rust-improving Robot, dtolnay, also developed an experiment in distributing precompiled proc macros as WebAssembly named Watt and, though I never bothered to create a Zulip account so I don't know what was said, I'm told there has been discussion around the idea of implementing something in that vein.
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Rust is coming to the Linux kernel
I think when we have Cranelift, Mold, and maybe Watt all working together then compile times will basically be a non-issue. It'll be a few years though.
- watt: Runtime for executing (Rust) procedural macros as WebAssembly
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Security advisory: malicious crate rustdecimal | Rust Blog
Check out https://github.com/dtolnay/watt - it's a really interesting solution to the problem!
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Backdooring Rust crates for fun and profit
I really like the idea of Watt: https://github.com/dtolnay/watt Run macros in a wasm sandbox so they can't touch anything you don't explicitly allow.
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NPM malware and what it could imply for Cargo
I really wish there was more interest in getting something like Watt upstreamed.
- Things I hate about Rust, redux
What are some alternatives?
When comparing cargo2nix and watt you can also consider the following projects:
naersk - Build Rust projects in Nix - no configuration, no code generation, no IFD, sandbox friendly.
godot-wasm-engine
rust-nix-template - Rust project template with Nix (Flakes) and VSCode support
kani - Kani Rust Verifier
rust-overlay - Pure and reproducible nix overlay of binary distributed rust toolchains
cargo-deny - ❌ Cargo plugin for linting your dependencies 🦀
crate2nix - rebuild only changed crates in CI with crate2nix and nix
cap-std - Capability-oriented version of the Rust standard library
Cargo - The Rust package manager
awesome-wasm-runtimes - A list of webassemby runtimes
nix-templates - Nix Flake templates for various languages
sccache - Sccache is a ccache-like tool. It is used as a compiler wrapper and avoids compilation when possible. Sccache has the capability to utilize caching in remote storage environments, including various cloud storage options, or alternatively, in local storage.