crane
naersk
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.
crane
- Can rustc generate identical binaries, with the same hash, from the same souce code?
- Transitioning to Rust as a company
-
Help with building a 32bit library with cargo
i would also recommend using crane or naersk since iirc rustPlaform.buildRustPackage can mangle some of these options (or maybe i just did something wrong lol)
-
Better support of Docker layer caching in Cargo
Notably crane is doing what cargo-chef is doing for Nix.
-
20 Years of Nix
I don't think it's very valid to compare the two. It is a little bit just to compare the experiences using them bit they aren't meant to solve the same set of issues. In fact, they are better together in my experience. I use nix to manage my terraform configurations with a lot of success. It reduces my boilerplate and helps me build abstractions on top of HCL.
If you ever decide to take a stab at nix again, consider looking at https://github.com/ipetkov/crane and using flakes. I've got it down to the point that I can get a new rust project set up with nix in about 30 seconds with linting, package building, and test running all in the checks
-
Has anyone packaged Rust programs as nix packages?
Take a look at Crane, though it is squarely aimed at non-beginners. If you want to submit whatever you're packaging to nixpkgs and not just for personal use, you can't use crane, though.
-
Crafting container images without Dockerfiles
To get Rust incremental builds, did you consider using something such as crane https://github.com/ipetkov/crane ?
And regarding OCI images, i built nix2container (https://github.com/nlewo/nix2container) to speed up image build and push times.
-
How to setup devShell for rust development with bevy?
This is the relevant part of my flake (which uses the quick-start template of crane):
-
yarnpnp2nix: More efficient way of packaging NodeJS applications
I imagine/hope you've seen this, but over in Rust-land I do something similar using https://github.com/ipetkov/crane. I've been on the lookout for something precisely like this for a while. I don't know much about the newer versions of yarn but imagined such a thing was possible. I am looking forward to trying this out, especially if the above is eventually addressed.
-
Perfect Docker Images for Rust with Nix
If you haven't already, I recommend checking out crane for building extensible workflows using cargo and Nix (e.g. running clippy, cargo-audit, cargo-nextest, cargo-tarpaulin, etc.)
naersk
-
Help with building a 32bit library with cargo
i would also recommend using crane or naersk since iirc rustPlaform.buildRustPackage can mangle some of these options (or maybe i just did something wrong lol)
-
Nix & Rust - cargo2nix 0.11.0 released
Have a look at naersk, it neither requires generated Nix files nor IFD.
-
Nix and NixOS Get So Close to Perfect
We use naersk[0] for Rust projects in our Nix monorepo (for example [1]). It's pretty hands-off in terms of the Nix code needed (you don't need to pin hashes inside of the Nix code as long as you have a Cargo lockfile) and all the existing tooling keeps working fine.
The main drawback of it is that it currently builds all of your dependencies in one big derivation, so any dependency changes cause a full rebuild. There's some other project I saw fly by which attempts to do a similar thing but split each crate into a separate derivation, but I forgot what it's called and have no experience with it.
[0]: https://github.com/nix-community/naersk
[1]: https://cs.tvl.fyi/depot/-/blob/ops/journaldriver/default.ni...
-
Nixery – Docker images on the fly with Nix
You can also use naersk¹ if you want to avoid a two-step process. It's especially convenient when using nix flakes.
¹https://github.com/nix-community/naersk
-
niv, naersk, napalm: moving on
I created https://github.com/nmattia/napalm/issues/34 and https://github.com/nmattia/naersk/issues/183 to move them to nix-community
-
Nix-ifying a Rust project
sounds exactly like what naersk does. naersk doesn't need a cargSha256 argument since it downloads dependencies from Cargo.lock. it can also grab the version number from Cargo.toml
What are some alternatives?
api - 🎭 API
crate2nix - rebuild only changed crates in CI with crate2nix and nix
yarnpnp2nix - A performance focused and space efficient way of packaging NodeJS applications with Nix
rust-overlay - Pure and reproducible nix overlay of binary distributed rust toolchains
cargo-auditable - Make production Rust binaries auditable
cargo2nix - Granular builds of Rust projects for Nix
dream2nix - Simplified nix packaging for various programming language ecosystems [maintainer=@DavHau]
nix-direnv - A fast, persistent use_nix/use_flake implementation for direnv [maintainer=@Mic92 / @bbenne10]
rustshop - Rust Shop is a fake cloud-based software company that you can fork.
direnv - unclutter your .profile
nix2container - An archive-less dockerTools.buildImage implementation