Best ide for writing nix expressions

[inclyc]

Give it a try?

GitHub - nix-community/nixd: Nix language server, based on nix libraries...

Nixd: nix language server

Recently I wrote a brand new nix language server, which links with official NixOS/nix library. Home page: https://github.com/nix-community/nixd/ About Nixd is a Nix language server that directly uses (i.e., is linked with) the official Nix library (https://github.com/NixOS/nix). Some notable features provided by linking with the Nix library include: Nixpkgs option support, for all option system (NixOS/home-manager/flake-parts). Diagnostics and evaluation that produce identical results as th…

@busti

I often come across code which includes a bunch of namespaces using with, i.e. with builtins; with lib; with foo; with bar followed by a bunch of function calls and names that I have no idea where they originate from.

We complete items in with expressions in nixd.

@busti

I.e. geting autocompletion after typing builtins. would be much quicker than scrolling through its source file on github.

Also all kinds of nixpkgs module systems & goto declaration (with docs)