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317 | 3,928 | |
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9.4 | 8.0 | |
7 days ago | 14 days ago | |
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Apache License 2.0 | MIT License |
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crate2nix
- Transitioning to Rust as a company
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How to package a Rust app using Nix
I'll use nixpkgs' buildRustPackage. There's a few other tools, my favorite being crate2nix, but we'll leave that to a future tutorial.
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Nix shell related questions (for rust)
If you want to iterate with nix instead of cargo, crate2nix and cargo2nix provides more caching and more fine control over your dependencies. I haven't used these two so you would have to decide for yourself. You may also want to try out nocargo for something more experimental.
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Introducing Crane: Composable and Cacheable Builds with Cargo and Nix
I'm yet to try it out, but from the blog post, the README and the source it appears that Crane builds all dependencies in one derivation (separately from the main crate). This means that if a dependency gets added, removed or changed, all dependencies of a crate will be rebuilt. This is in contrast with https://github.com/kolloch/crate2nix, which does build every dependency in a separate package, thus you don't need to rebuild other dependencies if you only change a small part of the tree.
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Nixery – Docker images on the fly with Nix
Yes, you will have to package it if it's not already in nixpkgs.
The good news is once you learn how, it's basically trivial with crate2nix[0], which can autogenerate nix derivations from rust crates
[0] https://github.com/kolloch/crate2nix
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Help with Nix and Rust
From my quick reading of cargo2nix's webpage yes. https://github.com/kolloch/crate2nix has a workspaces section.
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How do you install packages not in Nixpkgs?
As for your two applications, they're both written in Rust, and I like https://github.com/kolloch/crate2nix as a way to package Rust crates with Nix. BTW, wezterm is already in nixpkgs!
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Nix-ifying a Rust project
I like the way crate2nix works. I have made a flake template for it here. Sometimes it requires a couple of overrides to fix some misbehaving crates (see https://github.com/balsoft/simple-osd-daemons/blob/master/flake.nix#L29 for an example of such overrides), but otherwise it's fantastic. It doesn't require any hash nonsense, it downloads and builds all the crates separately (unlike naersk or other solutions) so you get all the benefits of Nix (reproducibility and proper caching).
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How to do a full, reproducible archive of a Rust project?
Crate2nix might help: https://github.com/kolloch/crate2nix
xplr
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Which is Best TUI file manager
I use xplr and like it very much.
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Midnight Commander is MIA; any command line based twin pane file manager recommendations?
xplr
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[Projet] PIC 📷
PIC stands for Preview Image in CLI, I think this should be explicit enough. I first made it because I needed a way to display images in the terminal (for an xplr plugin), but the more I worked on it, the better it got, as of now I have implemented 4 different ways to preview images (I couldn't find other ones), some can even display GIFs!
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Telegraph and the Unix Shell
Certain file managers like xplr allow for more advanced terminal UX. Check out the video on https://xplr.dev/ and you can see something like a live/interactive ls that allows toggling arguments (instead of running multiple commands and pushing previous stdout further into the past).
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xplr v0.20.0 - what's new?
xplr version 0.20.0 was released last week. If you haven't already, go ahead and install the latest version. This post will try to break down the changelog in the release in an easy-to-digest manner, looking through the perspective of different user groups.
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ranger-like three pane layout for xplr file explorer written in rust
Tool: https://xplr.dev
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Ask HN: Is it still possible to live in a terminal?
The Vim/Neovim ecosystem has gotten unbelievably better over the last 5-10 years. "Living in the terminal" for core development work is IMO better than pretty much anything else out there; my Neovim setup has a modern plugin manager; an IDE-like experience with fast autocompletion as I type, goto definition, and automated refactor support; and a side-drawer file browser navigable with Vim motions. It feels like an IDE, except that it launches in ~100ms and has ultra-low typing latency. Using it with tmux panes means I can have various drawers and panes with a series of full, incredibly fast terminals wherever I want, with long-running tasks like automated test watching/running while I edit code placed wherever I want around the editor panel. Not to mention the Cambrian explosion of "modern" terminal tooling getting built, like xplr [1], hyperfine [2], httpie [3], etc.
That being said, I think "living in the terminal" for general purpose computing, like browsing the web or talking to your coworkers, has been in a kind of frozen standstill while the rest of the world has moved on. I think it isn't worth trying to push non-dev work into the terminal currently.
1: https://github.com/sayanarijit/xplr
2: https://github.com/sharkdp/hyperfine
3: https://github.com/httpie/httpie
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LF, NNN or ViFM?
a terminal file manager built in rust I just heard about
- xplr released with built-in fuzzy search based on skim v2 algorithm
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how to rm -rf ~/Desktop permanently?
I tried using nnn but didn't find it easy to adopt, now I'm looking at https://github.com/sayanarijit/xplr
What are some alternatives?
naersk - Build Rust projects in Nix - no configuration, no code generation, no IFD, sandbox friendly.
nnn - n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager
cargo2nix - Granular builds of Rust projects for Nix
broot - A new way to see and navigate directory trees : https://dystroy.org/broot
rust-nix-template - Rust project template with Nix (Flakes) and VSCode support
lf - Terminal file manager
crates.io-index - Registry index for crates.io
ranger.vim - Ranger file manager for Vim
nix-templates - Nix Flake templates for various languages
nnn.vim - File manager for vim/neovim powered by n³
nixos - My NixOS Configurations
joshuto - ranger-like terminal file manager written in Rust