TechLobsters1 day ago
nix-build in under 100 lines
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A developer built a minimal nix-build implementation in Go using under 100 lines of code. The program reads a derivation's JSON, sets the environment variables, and executes the builder with its arguments. This demonstrates that turning a derivation into a store path is essentially an exec call.
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