dotfiles VS nixos-config

NixOS. If you still need Docker you can define and manage that via Nix too. I love it, both for this and managing development environments. Happy to answer any questions.

With Nix we have a shell.nix in the root of our repo describing all of the project's system dependencies. It looks something like this. You can pin nixpkgs with Flakes (think lockfiles) or by hardcoding a specific revision. We do the latter because I didn't want to complicate the Nix install for everyone by requiring they enable experimetnal features.

Nix, for example updating from rls to rust-analyzer.

I agree that the documentation story could be better. I also think it's a great shame that the language isn't statically-typed, so to understand how to use something I have to inspect its source code.

I've found it to be quite flexible though. For example, here's a commit in which I apply a patch to a tool to solve a problem that the derivation hadn't taken into account (and absent a home-manager solution): https://github.com/samhh/dotfiles/commit/867dd3b4d4b3942a0aa...

You may like to look at my newsboat config. It's biased towards FP and Linux.

Sure thing, I manage it in my dotfiles repo here.

I wonder if you'd have better luck if you built your xmonad as a proper Haskell app and didn't use the built-in --recompile stuff. It's not Nix, but see here an example of how I'm doing that.

Here's my config: https://github.com/samhh/dotfiles/blob/master/home/.config/git/config

This is possible for quickfix, see my dotfiles commit here.

I'm trying to setup NixOS with xmonad flake (something similar to this https://github.com/alternateved/nixos-config). When I try to rebuild my system, I get this error message (I got the same message when trying to build above mentioned config).

Not sure if this looks good, but I like how it works, therefore might be of interest: https://github.com/alternateved/nixos-config

I mainly use XMonad.Prompt module for session management (or whatever you would call that). I have session commands defined across those files and I use XMonad.Prompt.DirExec module to create a prompt which executes those scripts with [this line](https://github.com/alternateved/nixos-config/blob/f781c6006cd50e3e4becaa05572ccba5313f12df/config/xmonad/xmonad.hs#L279]

Feel free to peruse my config.

This is how I set my sway up. I am afraid this configuration might be a bit convoluted - I also use flakes and home-manager module.

Would you mind checking my sway configuration in nix and comparing it with yours?

I did not experience much tearing with my setup, you might check my configuration (picom part or intel one). Maybe it will be helpful anyhow.

I've set up my xmonad and xmobar as a cabal project. Here you could see xmonad and xmobar overrides. I build alternateved-xmonad binary from this directory and install it from here.

You could try switching to EZConfig and set your keybindings differently. I have that setup in my config, I find it much more readable. You would need to import XMonad.Util.EZConfig module.