fennecOS
rules_nixpkgs
| fennecOS | rules_nixpkgs | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | |
| 7 | 272 | |
| - | 3.0% | |
| 6.2 | 9.0 | |
| 30 days ago | about 10 hours ago | |
| Nix | Starlark | |
| MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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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
rules_nixpkgs
- Crafting container images without Dockerfiles
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Our Roadmap for Nix
I have spent a little bit of time working on a prototype of a setup like this, and have needed to write a lot of (hacky) glue and BUILD files.
I take it you have departed quite a bit from https://github.com/tweag/rules_nixpkgs ? Are you generating BUILD.bazel files for nixpkgs, or are you doing that by hand?
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nix-shell, but make it lovely
I'm a fan of Tweag's rules_nixpkgs for bazel: https://github.com/tweag/rules_nixpkgs
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Bazel 5.0 LTS with the new external dependency subsystem "Bzlmod"
Check out rules_nixpkgs as another way to get hermetic python. It does require that you install Nix, but everything else is driven from the Bazel side. Works for us on Linux and macos.
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We Went All in on Sqlc/Pgx for Postgres and Go
Cool, thanks for the link.
For what it's worth, we use rules_nixpkgs to source Postgres (for Linux and Darwin) as well as things such as C and Python toolchains, and it's been working really well. It does require that the machine have Nix installed, though, but that opens up access to Nix's wide array of prebuilt packages.
https://github.com/tweag/rules_nixpkgs
What are some alternatives?
rnix-lsp - WIP Language Server for Nix! [maintainer=@aaronjanse]
bazel-skylib - Common useful functions and rules for Bazel
nickel-nix - An experimental Nix toolkit to use nickel as a language for writing nix packages, shells and more. [Moved to: https://github.com/nickel-lang/organist]
pike - Generate CRUD gRPC backends from single YAML description.
flakes - My personal nixos configuration
sqlc - Generate type-safe code from SQL
go-nix - Elements of Nix re-implemented as Go libraries [maintainer=@flokli]
goyesql - Parse SQL files with multiple named queries and automatically prepare and scan them into structs.
sqlparser-rs - Extensible SQL Lexer and Parser for Rust
SQLBoiler - Generate a Go ORM tailored to your database schema.
flake-utils - Pure Nix flake utility functions [maintainer=@zimbatm]
go - The Go programming language