Maybe worth mentioning rust and performance more prominently as the motivations.
Is Nix eating the world? We have seen lots of unbelievable projects using it on HN recently. It feels like anyone serious about complex systems and building software are embracing it.
I use it extensively also via nixpkgs, though somehow I have yet to make the leap to full NixOS.
One consideration for anyone who hasn’t jumped in, is that I have nixpkgs on Linux, MacOS, and Win11 hosts. I’ve found that incredibly useful.
I didn’t find these via HN search, I found them in my bookmarking account. I have a slightly strange way of bookmarking - I send emails to a dedicated email account, so these I found there looking for Nix in a search.
Nope it’s just a regular email provider with IMAP support. I just send myself an email with the link and optionally some cut and paste content or notes. I have offline backups of all my IMAP accounts also. I find it convenient because I just add that account to whatever mobile or desktop environment and then can use search functionality of email client. It’s a bit silly but it’s worked out ok for me for many years now and yes definitely works for 10k emails of bookmarks, no problem.
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Maybe worth mentioning rust and performance more prominently as the motivations.
Is Nix eating the world? We have seen lots of unbelievable projects using it on HN recently. It feels like anyone serious about complex systems and building software are embracing it.
I use it extensively also via nixpkgs, though somehow I have yet to make the leap to full NixOS.
One consideration for anyone who hasn’t jumped in, is that I have nixpkgs on Linux, MacOS, and Win11 hosts. I’ve found that incredibly useful.
There's also nix-darwin and home-manager. I barely use brew anymore, not directly anyway, for the rare packages that aren't in nixpkgs.
Can you provide some links to some projects? You’ve piqued my interest
I would not call these projects unbelievable, but they are neat.
Opt-in state:
https://github.com/nix-community/impermanence
https://grahamc.com/blog/erase-your-darlings
Ease of setting up a real-time audio on Linux:
https://github.com/musnix/musnix
Generating virtual machines/installators from a configuration:
https://github.com/astro/microvm.nix
https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-generators
It's interesting to scroll through nix-darwin options, I wasn't even aware of some useful macOS options before:
https://daiderd.com/nix-darwin/manual/index.html
A neat collection of music information retrieval packages in one place (and the ease of creating your own package registry):
https://github.com/carlthome/mirpkgs
https://github.com/majbacka-labs/nixos.fi
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40010991
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39720007
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39692801
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39658684
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39004785
I didn’t find these via HN search, I found them in my bookmarking account. I have a slightly strange way of bookmarking - I send emails to a dedicated email account, so these I found there looking for Nix in a search.
do you use special email client and host provider for that?
does it work for 10k bmarks?
Nope it’s just a regular email provider with IMAP support. I just send myself an email with the link and optionally some cut and paste content or notes. I have offline backups of all my IMAP accounts also. I find it convenient because I just add that account to whatever mobile or desktop environment and then can use search functionality of email client. It’s a bit silly but it’s worked out ok for me for many years now and yes definitely works for 10k emails of bookmarks, no problem.
Tow-Boot comes to mind for me. https://github.com/Tow-Boot/Tow-Boot/
Also plenty of projects here: https://github.com/nix-community/awesome-nix
Not super recent, but nix-snapshotter is one that I'd call awesome(but I'm also a k8s fanboi): https://github.com/pdtpartners/nix-snapshotter
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37407758