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Nix development environments, for various languages
Those of us on NixOS never install language toolkits system-wide, unlike other distros. Regrettably, many projects are not taking advantage of Nix for reproducible development environments. You should make a big fuss about this in every open source project you are a part of and constantly evangelize about Nix. Until Nix is universally adopted, this repository serves as a collection of flakes which provides compilers, package managers, and basic development tools like LSPs for common languages. Simply clone this to a desired location, then run:
nix develop <location-of-repo>#<language>
# example
nix develop ~/.devenvs#rustNightly
# provides rust-analyzer, rustc, cargo, and some others from nightly toolchain
Automatic environment loading
For convenience, you can use nix-direnv to automatically load these environments.
Simply add the following .envrc to the project directory:
# file: .envrc
use flake <path-to-this-repo>#<language>
Example:
use flake ~/.devenvs#go
If you don't want to commit these files, make sure to run the following:
# tell git to ignore these direnv files for this local repository
git update-index --skip-worktree .envrc .direnv