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Closing the Nix gap: From environments to packaged applications for rust


Fast, Declarative, Reproducible, and Composable Developer Environments using Nix

This tweet shows a common problem in Nix: "Should I use crate2nix, cargo2nix, or naersk for packaging my Rust application?" Developers don't want to compare crate2nix vs cargo2nix vs naersk vs crane —they want a tested solution that works. Development: Enable the language ( languages.rust.enable = true) to get tools like cargo, rustc, and rust-analyzer.

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