nix-config VS nickel

Compare nix-config vs nickel and see what are their differences.

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nix-config nickel
5 45
718 2,092
- 5.4%
8.8 9.5
17 days ago about 9 hours ago
Nix Rust
Apache License 2.0 MIT License
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nix-config

Posts with mentions or reviews of nix-config. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-08.

nickel

Posts with mentions or reviews of nickel. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-01.
  • 10 Ways for Kubernetes Declarative Configuration Management
    23 projects | dev.to | 1 Jan 2024
    Nickel:Nickel is a straightforward configuration language aimed at automatically generating static configuration files. Essentially, it's akin to JSON with the addition of functions and types.
  • Show HN: Togomak – declarative pipeline orchestrator based on HCL and Terraform
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Oct 2023
    Also look at nickel which is an evolution of nix. It's my favorite in this space.

    nickel-lang.org

    https://github.com/tweag/nickel

  • Show HN: Flake schemas – teaching Nix about your flake outputs
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Aug 2023
  • What config format do you prefer?
    11 projects | /r/rust | 4 Jul 2023
    https://github.com/tweag/nickel could try this
    11 projects | /r/rust | 4 Jul 2023
    I'll also add another candidate if lua isn't the right path (I still think it is): Nickel.
    11 projects | /r/rust | 4 Jul 2023
    Or this https://github.com/tweag/nickel
  • Announcing Nickel 1.0, a configuration language written in (and usable from) Rust
    11 projects | /r/rust | 8 Jun 2023
    As for 'providence', I suppose you meant provenance :) it's been delayed because this was less critical for 1.0 to decide on or to implement (as it: it doesn't break backward compatibility in any way to add this feature in the short term), but this is very much on the roadmap: Issue #235. That's a must-have in a language with merging like Nickel.
    11 projects | /r/rust | 8 Jun 2023
    Nickel isn't the first such project. Similar languages already existed: Jsonnet, CUE, Dhall, and Nix to some extent (albeit specialized). Our starting point was in part adding typing to Nix, and we found that the aforementioned language didn't satisfy our design constraints (you can take a look at the RATIONALE.md document for more details).
    11 projects | /r/rust | 8 Jun 2023
    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 :)
    11 projects | /r/rust | 8 Jun 2023
    The LSP is aware of contracts (and the rest of the tooling, in particular `nickel query`) and is able to show "types" (really contracts), documentation, provide completion and so on. You can take a look at a simple Kubernetes example here: https://github.com/tweag/nickel/blob/master/examples/record-contract/record-contract.ncl

What are some alternatives?

When comparing nix-config and nickel you can also consider the following projects:

rnix-lsp - WIP Language Server for Nix! [maintainer=@aaronjanse]

nixos - My NixOS Configurations

nix-gui - Use NixOS Without Coding

nix-doc - An interactive Nix documentation tool providing a CLI for function search, a Nix plugin for docs in the REPL, and a ctags implementation for Nix script

devshell - Per project developer environments

AppImageKit - Package desktop applications as AppImages that run on common Linux-based operating systems, such as RHEL, CentOS, openSUSE, SLED, Ubuntu, Fedora, debian and derivatives. Join #AppImage on irc.libera.chat

nix - Nix, the purely functional package manager

nix-home - Nix + HM = <3

impermanence - Modules to help you handle persistent state on systems with ephemeral root storage [maintainer=@talyz]

nix-index - Quickly locate nix packages with specific files [maintainers=@bennofs @figsoda @raitobezarius]

lorri - Your project's nix-env

nix-direnv - A fast, persistent use_nix/use_flake implementation for direnv [maintainer=@Mic92 / @bbenne10]