Top 6 Nix Cargo Projects

crane

9 557 0.0 Nix

A Nix library for building cargo projects. Never build twice thanks to incremental artifact caching.

Project mention: Can rustc generate identical binaries, with the same hash, from the same souce code? | /r/rust | 2023-06-25
naersk

1 552 5.4 Nix

Build rust crates in Nix. No configuration, no code generation, no IFD. Sandbox friendly. [maintainer: @Patryk27]

Project mention: Help with building a 32bit library with cargo | /r/NixOS | 2023-04-07

i would also recommend using crane or naersk since iirc rustPlaform.buildRustPackage can mangle some of these options (or maybe i just did something wrong lol)
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crate2nix

3 282 0.0 Nix

nix build file generator for rust crates

Project mention: Transitioning to Rust as a company | /r/rust | 2023-06-02
cargo2nix

3 248 0.0 Nix

Granular caching, development shell, Nix & Rust integration

Project mention: Transitioning to Rust as a company | /r/rust | 2023-06-02
nix-cargo-integration

0 144 10.0 Nix

Library to easily and effortlessly integrate Cargo projects with Nix.
nocargo

1 99 0.0 Nix

[alpha] Build Rust crates with Nix Build System.

Project mention: Nix shell related questions (for rust) | /r/NixOS | 2022-12-24

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.

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020). The latest post mention was on 2023-06-25.