fennecOS
nickel-nix
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MIT License | MIT License |
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fennecOS
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Our Roadmap for Nix
I love nix, I've been using it for the last 2 years, I have a very stable setup from these 2 years of effort [0], and I just can't recommend Nix for Linux beginners, why?
Well, because everything is scattered, you have to consult many places to find out how to do things with Nix, here is my workflow:
Usually, when I need a new complex program, like Steam, I first check the system-wide configuration [1], the wiki [2] and the package list [3], if I just want it on my user, I need to check if Home Manager has an option [4], if it doesn't, I can just use the "home.packages" option. Now, if I need to override something on the package, I need to remember how to do it with [5] [6] (while checking the source code for the package in parallel to find the options).
And then sometimes, on very rare occasions, I need to fine tune something with the nix language, so I need to check the builtins/lib docs [7], but some builtins are not there, so I need to either use nix-doc [8] or find the docs inside the code-bases [9] [10] (they are split between both repos)
[0] - https://github.com/shiryel/nixos-dotfiles
nickel-nix
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NixOS and My Descent into Insanity
Have you tried https://github.com/nickel-lang/nickel-nix ?
I didn't use it yet, but looks like this supposed to do it.
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The guide to software development with Guix
These days those aren't the only options; you can also use Nickel: https://github.com/nickel-lang/nickel-nix
Which isn't fully baked, no, but here's hoping.
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Announcing Nickel 1.0, a configuration language written in (and usable from) Rust
One target-use case of Nickel is to be used as an alternative front-end for Nix (instead of Nix expressions). There is a draft RFC and a repository to use Nickel to write development shell (Nixel). The goal is that, one day, you can actually just transparently call to Nix code and into Nixpkgs. Until then, I totally understand that nothing can be the power of levering Nixpkgs... so your approach makes sense :)
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Our Roadmap for Nix
Undecided; see https://github.com/nickel-lang/nickel-nix for a proof-of-concept of an integration that requires making no changes to either Nickel or Nix.
What are some alternatives?
rnix-lsp - WIP Language Server for Nix! [maintainer=@aaronjanse]
nix-book - Nix documentation – centralized community online learning resource for Nix
flakes - My personal nixos configuration
go-nix - Elements of Nix re-implemented as Go libraries [maintainer=@flokli]
flake-utils - Pure Nix flake utility functions [maintainer=@zimbatm]
vscode-yaml - YAML support for VS Code with built-in kubernetes syntax support
nixpkgs - Nix Packages collection & NixOS
guix-installer - A GNU Guix installer image with the full Linux kernel!
rules_nixpkgs - Rules for importing Nixpkgs packages into Bazel.
devbox - Instant, easy, and predictable development environments
qubes-issues - The Qubes OS Project issue tracker