Nix shell related questions (for rust)

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  • devenv

    Fast, Declarative, Reproducible, and Composable Developer Environments

  • I'm happy to help you using https://github.com/cachix/devenv/blob/main/examples/rust/devenv.nix in case you hit any issues

  • poe-stash-indexer

    An indexer for Path of Exile's Public Stash Tab API and additional tooling

  • Wrt #2: I use VSCodium with manually installed extensions as well. In my shell.nix I have cargo and rusr-analyzer as build inputs and I start the editor from within the nix shell via nix-shell && code . which works fine. Here is my config , but maybe I misunderstood your problem.

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  • crate2nix

    rebuild only changed crates in CI with crate2nix and nix

  • 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.

  • nocargo

    [alpha] Build Rust crates with Nix Build System.

  • 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.

  • rust-shell

    Nix shells for Rust development

  • Repo: https://github.com/loophp/rust-shell

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