ahoneybun, 2 months ago

@bitprophet what about this?:

https://github.com/remi-dupre/pinix

It's written in Rust!

bitprophet, 2 months ago

@ahoneybun nice! bookmarked 🙏🏻

Personally, I'm /significantly/ handier in Python, so for something where I just wanna Get Something Done, I'd rather hack on a Python lib than a Rust one.

(Subject to change as I get better at Rust, of course, but right now it's got a mild handicap of “6 months’ experience vs 20 years’" 😂)

ahoneybun, 2 months ago

@bitprophet I do feel like a frontend like this is better then what NixOS currently has at least in my experience. nvd is a nice stop gap though.

bitprophet, 2 months ago

@ahoneybun Regrettably, any of these thirdparty tools are better than the default nixos-rebuild/nix build output 😅

nebucatnetzer, 2 months ago

@ahoneybun @bitprophet There is nix-build-monitor as well: https://github.com/maralorn/nix-output-monitor

However I just use plain Nix for this. All the fancy once can sometimes break especially when I’m using the terminal in Emacs.

https://git.2li.ch/Nebucatnetzer/nixos/src/branch/master/modules/misc/common/default.nix#L162

bitprophet, 2 months ago

@nebucatnetzer @ahoneybun yea I have 'nom' bookmarked too, though I got the sense that was more about understanding what was currently building; I suspect the two are somewhat complimentary.