dotfiles VS statusline.lua

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 made this statusline plugin for the same purpose :) Clean and minimal, with everything you need and zero config required.

Funny enough I use _ for my own statusline.lua plugin

My code is rookie af right now. So it should be fairly easy to have a read through and understand how it works :) statusline.lua

Cool! I recently made one myself too. Ended up releasing it so you can install it right away. I plan to remove dependencies in the future and make the codebase far less cruddy :) https://github.com/beauwilliams/statusline.lua

Yes, not at first, but now I am comfortable with lua. It makes things much easier to script. This is probably the first time in my life where I have appreciated a language for its ergonomics. As I am still just a 2nd year uni student. I even ended up writing my own statusline plugin!

I even ended up releasing my own statusline plugin to try and get the hang of things. (shameless plug 😜) --> https://github.com/beauwilliams/statusline.lua