SEsea-gold·Sep 20, 2024Submission
Alejandra: The Uncompromising Nix Code Formatter
1 points · Open discussionkamadorueda
alejandra
Nix2024–2024
kamadorueda / alejandra
alejandra
The Uncompromising Nix Code Formatter
2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
1.4KGitHub stars
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What it is
The Uncompromising Nix Code Formatter
GitHub
Where it is used
No documented product use has been verified yet.
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Observed mentions: 2024-07-31 08:40:13 UTC to 2024-09-20 01:21:45 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Jul 29 | 2024-07-29 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-08-05 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Aug 5 | 2024-08-05 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-08-12 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 12 | 2024-08-12 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-08-19 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 19 | 2024-08-19 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-08-26 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 26 | 2024-08-26 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-09-02 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2 | 2024-09-02 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-09-09 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 9 | 2024-09-09 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-09-16 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 16 | 2024-09-16 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-09-23 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesAll the Nix commands that take an 'installable' can take GitHub URLs. For instance:
$ nix run github:NixOS/nixpkgs#hello
Hello world!
That command will download nixpkgs from GitHub, evaluate the `hello` flake attribute, build it (or download it from a cache), and run it.
> But to find out what the flake exposes at all, reading the flake (or its documentation) is pretty much necessary.
If the flake exposes default packages or apps, then you do not need to provide a flake attribute:
$ nix run github:NixOS/nixpkgs
error: flake 'github:NixOS/nixpkgs' does not provide attribute 'apps.aarch64-darwin.default', 'defaultApp.aarch64-darwin', 'packages.aarch64-darwin.default' or 'defaultPackage.aarch64-darwin'
So you can run e.g. Alejandra [1], a Nix formatter, like so:
$ nix run github:kamadorueda/alejandra
[1]: https://githu
Read the rest
b.com/kamadorueda/alejandra
EDIT: For what it's worth, I think this feature can be useful sometimes, but it does also suffer from the same typosquatting problems as we see in other ecosystems.