NixCon2023 Nuenv: an experimental derivation builder for Nix

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Nuenv is an alternative builder for Nix derivations that uses Nushell rather than Bash. It offers enhanced expressiveness and type safety to Nix.

While Bash is a tried-and-true and highly well-known quantity, it's not particularly expressive and it has known "footguns" surrounding things like string parsing. Nushell is a recent entry into the world of shells. It's written in Rust and it offers robust data types and safety guarantees that have a lot to potentially offer to Nix. In this talk, I'll teach you not just about Nushell, how I built it, and how it works, but also about the realisation process itself.

Luc Perkins

https://talks.nixcon.org/nixcon-2023/...

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