nix

Nix, the purely functional package manager (by NixOS)

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  • Hacking Haskell with Nix: Two Tricks
    2 projects | dev.to | 22 May 2025
    If you are using Nix, you may have heard of Nix-Shell Shebang:
  • Hacking with mdBook
    9 projects | dev.to | 21 May 2025
    mdBook is a Rust-based tool to create Web-based books from vanilla Markdown files. Although it is quite minimalistic, you will bump into it quite often in the wild. Most notably, the Rust Book uses it. I see it quite often in the Nix ecosystem, too.
  • Haskell Project Template with Nix Flakes
    7 projects | dev.to | 20 May 2025
    Haskell has been my go-to language for over 7 years. First, I started with Stack, then switched to plain Cabal and finally settled on Nix to provision a development environment for Haskell projects.
  • SDK-Driven Development: A Litmus Test for Good Software Design
    3 projects | dev.to | 15 May 2025
    Also for systems administration and DevOps, I first used Ansible to streamline the management of our servers. Writing playbooks is OK, but going beyond that to convert them to roles is a good practice from collaboration perspective. This SDK approach worked quite well for me and my team. Now, I am developing NixOS modules for various services we deploy. In both cases, the goal is to compose well-defined and documented modules (SDK) into a complete system in a few lines of code (application).
  • Why and How to Patch a Python Package in Nix
    4 projects | dev.to | 8 May 2025
    I bumped into an annoying issue today while upgrading my Python dependencies in a codebase. And I thought it would be a good idea to share the solution with you. Thanks to Nix for making this kind of fix so straightforward.
  • Brush (Bo(u)rn(e) RUsty SHell) a POSIX and Bash-Compatible Shell in Rust
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 May 2025
    This is interesting to me given https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/10823

    We have a decent amount of code in bash that I'd like to get working on Windows too, once Nix on Windows is ready. I'm happy to rewrite it to a better language, but if I can get a non-CygWin/MSYS2 bash-compatible shell, that's a very nice thing to try out.

  • Nix Flake Templates
    9 projects | dev.to | 5 May 2025
    I am actively using Nix from my workstation setup to development environments, from Docker image builds to CI/CD pipelines, and even on production servers. One of the themes that comes up often is provisioning a codebase, a development environment and packaging configuration for a new project.
  • Show HN: Node.js video tutorials where you can edit and run the code
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Apr 2025
  • 20 years of Git. Still weird, still wonderful
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Apr 2025
    NixOS may end up being "the last OS I ever use" (especially now that gaming is viable on it):

    https://nixos.org/

    Check it out. The whitepaper's a fairly digestible read, too, and may get you excited about the whole concept (which is VERY different from how things are normally done, but ends up giving you guarantees)

  • Red y SSH en Stage1 (boot - initrd) de NixOS - Parte 1
    1 project | dev.to | 4 Apr 2025
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