Dynamic Derivations (IFD alternative?)
Dynamic Derivations (IFD alternative?)
fzakaria.com An early look at Nix Dynamic Derivations
I normally like to write about concepts from first principles and wait for much of the dust to have settled on the implementation details, but let me take you on a small tour of an upcoming feature instead.
Really cool Nix idea which could improve incremental builds and replaces IFD (import from derivation) in some instances.
The article poses it as an alt to the lang2nix pattern, but some of functions look rather challenging to understand? Do you think this might allow nixpkgs upstream to support more languages / build systems performantly out of the box, abstracting away the complexity from Nix users?