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nocargo
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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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Perfect Docker Images for Rust with Nix
Thank you. It looks very useful, so I’ll give it a try. Do you know, offhand, whether I can use crane to build a dependency specified in Cargo.toml with extra settings? I have a more complicated Rust application I’m trying to build with Nix. The solution I’ve arrived at for the moment is building with nocargo just so I can override OUT_DIR when building opencv, but it doesn’t work with LTO and the end result is inferior to my starting point. (If there’s a way to customize the opencv build without needing any extra packages, I’d love to hear about that too.)
devenv
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Show HN: Lapdev, a new open-source remote dev environment management software
https://devenv.sh/ and nix in general are great for setting up dev environments.
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Show HN: Flox 1.0 – Open-source dev env as code with Nix
> but worried that the development is not moving forward
There is an open v1.0 PR: https://github.com/cachix/devenv/pull/1005
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Ask HN: How can I make local dev with containers hurt less?
It would be a smoother transition for most I imagine to use nix via https://devenv.sh/ even if only for it's excellent documentation.
Yup, I haven’t tried it but there is https://devenv.sh which is built on top of nix and makes it simple.
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Flakes aren't real and cannot hurt you: using Nix flakes the non-flake way
Although Guix reads better than Nix (after all, it's Lisp), I found the support and resources available for learning severely lacking.
Plus, you have to jump through hoops to install non-free software, which goes against the ethos of Guix anyway.
IMHO, Nix is clearly "the winner" here and we'll see more and more adoption as it improves. Lots of folks are doing exciting work (see https://determinate.systems/, https://devenv.sh/, https://flakehub.com/). And the scale and organization around nixpkgs is damn impressive.
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NixOS has one fatal flaw
I don't think you can ever get Nix as simple as PNPM, simply because native libraries are sometimes annoying, need to be configured at build time to a greater degree and because the problem space it attacks is so much larger than PNPM, which only deals with the JS/Node.js ecosystem.
However, I do think that there exist reasonable levels of abstraction that sacrifice some expressive power for simplicity and such systems could maybe expose a PNPM-like CLI. One example that comes to mind is devenv.nix [1]. While it doesn't yet have a CLI, its configuration file is YAML and relatively simple. I think there's more to be done in this space and I hope for tools that are easier to grasp in the future.
> Nix package files evaluate down to configuration for the Nix package manager, but I haven’t ever seen a good explanation for the basic essentials underneath all the abstraction. Every guide I’ve learned from and all the package defs I’ve read seem to cargo cult many layers of mysterious config composing config. Without easy to learn essentials it’s difficult to grok the system as a whole.
To me it sounds like the essential that you're referring to is the 'derivation' primitive, which is almost always hidden behind the mkDerivation abstraction from nixpkgs. This [2] blog post is an exploration of what exactly that means.
I'd also love for the documentation situation to be much better, in particular in terms of official, curated resources. But I'm not convinced that you actually need to know the difference between derivation and mkDerivation to make effective use of Nix, because in practice you would always use the latter. That said, mkDerivation and the whole of nixpkgs is essentially a huge DSL (I believe this is what you meant when you said 'config composing config') that you do need to know and is woefully underdocumented.
> I would love to adopt Nix for developer tooling for Notion’s engineers, but today it’s about infinity times easier to work around the limitations mentioned of Docker+Ubuntu+NPM than to work around the limitations of Nix.
One approach I have taken to is to specify the environment in Nix, but then generate Docker devcontainers from it, so most people don't come into contact with Nix if they don't want to.
[2] https://ianthehenry.com/posts/how-to-learn-nix/derivations/
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Development Environments with Guix, similar to devenv.sh
This though, through the use of devenv.sh, which uses nix, as when I got into nix I though it was going to be easier to just make a development environment, not the case. Until I found devenv.sh, I could actually finally make good environments... It also has other features like containers and services, which also help me know that I can get the most of it if the time comes.
- Show HN: Local development with .local domains and HTTPS
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Using Haskell with devenv.sh
Here’s getting started with Haskell using devenv.sh:
What are some alternatives?
devbox - Instant, easy, and predictable development environments
nix-direnv - A fast, persistent use_nix/use_flake implementation for direnv [maintainer=@Mic92 / @bbenne10]
direnv - unclutter your .profile
devshell - Per project developer environments
nix - Nix, the purely functional package manager
rembg - Rembg is a tool to remove images background
deequ - Deequ is a library built on top of Apache Spark for defining "unit tests for data", which measure data quality in large datasets.
enso - Hybrid visual and textual functional programming.
telepresence - Local development against a remote Kubernetes or OpenShift cluster
macpine - Lightweight Linux VMs on MacOS
Podman Desktop - Podman Desktop - A graphical tool for developing on containers and Kubernetes
Tabby - A terminal for a more modern age