[Nix-dev] What's the "perfect setup" for hacking on Nix?

Profpatsch mail at profpatsch.de
Fri Apr 14 07:26:37 CEST 2017


On 17-04-11 09:28pm, Chris Marusich wrote:
> Since Nix is implemented in C++, I guess any
> C++ IDE (or modes/tools in emacs) would be helpful.  I was just curious
> to know if any particular IDE or technology was heavily used by the Nix
> community.

You normally don’t have to know any C++ for most tasks.
Working on the package manager itself is the smallest part,
nearly all of the work is done in nixpkgs,
that is: with nix expressions and lots of (bash) scripts.


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