Top 3 Nix Package Management Projects

dream2nix

9 859 9.6 Nix

Simplified nix packaging for various programming language ecosystems [maintainer=@DavHau]

Project mention: Dream2nix – Automate reproducible packaging for various language ecosystems | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-10-13

nix-portable

11 697 6.5 Nix

Nix - Static, Permissionless, Installation-free, Pre-configured

Project mention: An independent package manager that every hacker deserves | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-11-29

There is also nix-portable (https://github.com/DavHau/nix-portable), which is basically a drop-in replacement for normal nix that does everything required for no-root operation by itself when needed. Just put the single binary in your PATH and it's ready.

InfluxDB

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Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
twist.nix

4 51 7.9 Nix

Build an entire Emacs configuration as a Nix package in a pure, reproducible way

Project mention: Mega fast startup times | /r/emacs | 2023-06-03

It's only for Nix users, but my twist.nix package manager is capable of native-compiling all packages. You can even push native-compiled assets to a remote binary cache. I precompile packages on CI and use them on a slow Celeron computer by just fetching them from a server.

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).