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nixd

Nix language server, based on nix libraries [maintainer=@inclyc,@takeokunn,@Aleksanaa]

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0Explicit recommenders
1.5KGitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

Nix language server, based on nix libraries [maintainer=@inclyc,@takeokunn,@Aleksanaa]

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by hour2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2024-10-02 07:18:26 UTC to 2024-10-02 10:13:54 UTC.

012024-10-02 07:00:00 UTC to 2024-10-02 08:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsOct 2, 07:002024-10-02 08:00:00 UTC to 2024-10-02 09:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsOct 2, 08:002024-10-02 09:00:00 UTC to 2024-10-02 10:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-10-02 10:00:00 UTC to 2024-10-02 11:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsOct 2, 10:00

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Oct 2, 07:002024-10-02 07:00:00 UTC2024-10-02 08:00:00 UTC101
Oct 2, 08:002024-10-02 08:00:00 UTC2024-10-02 09:00:00 UTC000
Oct 2, 09:002024-10-02 09:00:00 UTC2024-10-02 10:00:00 UTC000
Oct 2, 10:002024-10-02 10:00:00 UTC2024-10-02 11:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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This is inherently a Hard Problem™, since completions may require evaluating arbitrary derivations (e.g. building a custom Linux kernel). For "what symbols are available", the nil LSP implementation[1] works for anything in scope that doesn't require evaluation. It also includes completions for the stdlib and NixOS options (in certain contexts). Another LSP implementation is nixd[2], which is trying to tackle the problem of evaluations for completion. [1] https://github.com/oxalica/nil/ [2] https://github.com/nix-community/nixd
In NixOS is a good server OS, except when it isn't

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