Top 12 Go Nix Projects

• devbox

  49 7,679 9.7 Go

  Instant, easy, and predictable development environments

  

Project mention: Elixir and Machine Learning in 2024 so far: MLIR, Arrow, structured LLM, etc. | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-05-29

Yeah, the LSP situation remains a sore point, which is deeply unfortunate. One of the big reasons I like Gleam! Luckily, there are new contenders popping up to hopefully solve the issues with elixir-ls: try https://github.com/elixir-tools/next-ls or https://github.com/lexical-lsp/lexical. They might give a better experience.

> By the way, the official Elixir website recommends using Homebrew to install it. But almost everyone in the Github issues and comments says ASDF is the way to go.

The Elixir website is right. Just use Homebrew until you find a real need for asdf or similar tools. It's far simpler.

asdf (or mise[0]) is merely a way to manage different runtime versions between various projects, you would use it the same way as one might use rbenv/rvm, nvm/n, or even Docker/nix, and so on. You don't need it until you have several ongoing projects requiring different runtime versions. If you reach that point, great! It'll be worth the effort then, and it isn't difficult.

Personally, I just use Homebrew elixir for easy ad-hoc access to iex/livebook. If I truly need reproducible environments, devbox[1] (a sort of nix wrapper) is nice and extremely straightforward.

Tl;dr: Just use Homebrew. If your requirements expand beyond that, you'll have far more challenging problems to deal with.

[0] https://mise.jdx.dev/dev-tools/comparison-to-asdf.html

[1] https://www.jetify.com/devbox

• nixery

  18 1,700 4.8 Go

  Container registry which transparently builds images using the Nix package manager. Canonical repository is https://cs.tvl.fyi/depot/-/tree/tools/nixery

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• morph

  4 733 6.5 Go

  NixOS deployment tool

  

• nix2container

  9 462 6.3 Go

  An archive-less dockerTools.buildImage implementation

Project mention: Nix is a better Docker image builder than Docker's image builder | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-15

No discussion about Nix-built containers is complete with nix2container:

https://github.com/nlewo/nix2container

It is truly magical for handling large, multi-layered containers. Instead of building the container archives themselves and storing them in the nix store, it builds a JSON manifest that is consumed by a lightly patched version of skopeo that streams the layers directly to either your local container engine or the registry.

This means you never rebuild or reupload a container layer that is unchanged.

• bob

  34 441 4.3 Go

  Bob is a high-level build tool for multi-language projects. (by benchkram)

  

Project mention: Bob: A high-level build tool for multi-language projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-05-29

• appvm

  2 240 0.0 Go

  Nix-based app VMs

• buildkit-nix

  2 152 3.6 Go

  Nix derivations as Dockerfiles (`docker build -f default.nix .`)

  

Project mention: Virtualizing Development Environments in 2023 | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-08-04

Nix solves a different problem than Hocus. Nix lets you define a development environment, Hocus gives you a way to run it. Right now we use Dockerfiles to let users define the packages they need in their dev env, but we would like to support Nix in the future too. Interestingly, you can use custom BuildKit syntax https://docs.docker.com/build/dockerfile/frontend/ to build Nix environments with Docker https://github.com/reproducible-containers/buildkit-nix, and that's probably what we will end up supporting.

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• go-nix

  1 115 5.3 Go

  Elements of Nix re-implemented as Go libraries [maintainer=@flokli]

  

• nomad-driver-nix

  1 31 2.6 Go

  A Nomad task driver for systemd-nspawn

  

• prp

  1 21 4.6 Go

  A convenient solution for backing up and restoring your installed packages.

• r10edocker

  1 18 6.3 Go

  Make minimum, reproducible Docker container for Go application

Project mention: R10edocker: Reproducible Docker container for Go applications, in Nix | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-09-20

• bobc

  1 7 4.0 Go

  Remote cache for https://bob.build

  

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