Tweag+Nix dev update #44

Solene · February 17, 2023, 11:51am

Hello

TLDR; in the last two weeks, lot of cool media content has been made (blog, videos, talks to conferences), which means less activity in the code bases

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Making Nix solve people’s problems

Documentation

@balsoft took over @yorickvp’s PR about improving the hacking guide, this has been reviewed by @thufschmitt and @fricklerhandwerk and should be ready to be merged very soon
@fricklerhandwerk reviewed and opened a massive amount of issues and pull requests related to documentation
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Making Nix work reliably everywhere

@yorickvp made a PR to switch builtins.match to boost::regex, fixing the occasional stack overflow
@yorickvp attempted to stop the overly verbose “Failed to find a machine for remote build” spam in a lot of cases
@yorickvp fixed fetchTree paths with spaces
@yorickvp added a test for BoehmGC+coroutine interaction, which should make Nix more reliable in the future

Blog posts and media

@YorikSar wrote a blog post about Running a NixOS VM on MacOS
@balsoft introduced his opam-nix project in opam-nix: nixify your OCaml projects
@infinisil published a new batch of episodes of The Nix Hour! All episodes now have a title tagging the mentioned topics, in addition to the more detailed timestamps

Nickel

@djacu added Continuous Integration on Nickel-nix project to automatically verify the development shells are working

We were at FOSDEM and CfgMgmtCamp !

Nix

Nix seemed pretty popular at both FOSDEM and Config Management Camp this year. The devroom at FOSDEM was filled, and the talks given at Config Management Camp drew a big crowd as well. We’re excited to do it again next year. Hopefully, in a bigger room then.

FOSDEM recap
- @yannham presented Nixel, a way to create Nix development environments using the configuration language Nickel, solving a bunch of Nix language limitations such as merging and type check. [Video recording]
- Guillaume Desforges talked about making anyone use Nix [Video recording]
- @thufschmitt gave us a nice explanation about the Nix development process [Video recording]
Config Management Camp recap
- A Gentle Introduction to Nix [No recording]
- @bjth What the Nix?! ([Video recording])

Nickel

At FOSDEM, @yannham talked about Nixel: a nicer way to write you
@vkleen shared about his work to make Nickel usable for writing terraform code
@yannham talked about using Nickel to ease configuration file management

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