Rust Environment and Docker Build with Nix Flakes

• flake-utils

  8 1,005 5.8 Nix

  Pure Nix flake utility functions [maintainer=@zimbatm]

  

We added two inputs, the first is nixpkgs which lets us specify which version of nixpkgs we should use. There are many thousands of packages in the nixpkg repository, and they are updated often so here will use the unstable branch. We also added flake-utils which helps us generalize the flake to support multiple systems, not just Linux.

• rust-overlay

  11 745 9.5 Nix

  Pure and reproducible nix overlay of binary distributed rust toolchains

We added rust-overlay, so we can easily specify different rust versions without relying on nixpkgs to give us what ever rust version in there.

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• nix-direnv

  27 1,448 9.1 Nix

  A fast, persistent use_nix/use_flake implementation for direnv [maintainer=@Mic92 / @bbenne10]

  

Install direnv and nix-direnv. The second is optional but helps with caching, so I recommend it.

• dive

  90 43,487 7.0 Go

  A tool for exploring each layer in a docker image

Let's use dive to look at the image. You can use it temporarily with nix shell nixpkgs#dive.

• nix

  372 10,814 10.0 C++

  Nix, the purely functional package manager

  

Getting a dev environment setup with rust is usually pretty simple, just use rustup then you're good to go. Using a build tool like Nix can buy you much more for not much extra work. Nix lets you

• direnv

  157 11,675 8.7 Go

  unclutter your .profile

  

Install direnv and nix-direnv. The second is optional but helps with caching, so I recommend it.

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