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Angle brackets in a Nix flake world
At DEFCON33, the Nix community had its first-ever presence via nix.vegas and I ended up in fun conversation with tomberek 🙌.
As a very worthwhile aside, the first time presence of the Nix community at DEFCON was fantastic and I am extra appreciative to numinit and RossComputerguy 🙇. With the eventual planned removal of support for NIX_PATH, we are now presented with an opportunity of some new functionality in Nix, namely the angled brackets<something> that can be reconstituted for a new purpose. We write a function of__findFile that trivially splits the contents within the angle bracket to access the attrset of the flake as returned by builtins.getFlake (toString ./.
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