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@me_and Seems interesting. Is this similar to https://integer.garden/Notes/Building-a-NixOS-VM-from-a-flake? ๐Ÿ™‚
Building a NixOS VM from a flake

nix.dev has documentation for building NixOS VMs using the handy qemu-vm.nix module. With a bit of digging into how this works itโ€™s easy enough to adapt How to build a NixOS configuration from a flake with nix build to also build this script from a flake and run your NixOS configuration as a VM.

@drizzy oh this is awesome! I didn't know this was possible :D
@fireye strange that would've been my first suggestion as well. Where does it error and what does the error look like?
@fireye as in building a fork instead of upstream or something like that?
@shapr I usually try and go the other way around. Make it build through nix first and then often extending the build inputs of the package with dev tools is trivial.
@saku_art is it just a passing housewife? :D
@jbz pretty nice read. Out of curiosity, what are you main gripes with nixlang?
@athousandcateaus I never tried it, but there is probably a lot of cool ideas on https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code
Rosetta Code

Rosetta Code is a programming chrestomathy site. The idea is to present solutions to the same task in as many different languages as possible, to demonstrate how...

Rosetta Code
@ury ha, I thought about this recently too! Just feels like such a good combo in general.

@m_urbanowicz the idea that, you're just taking notes, that often happen to be simple visuals, resonates really strongly with me.

I often start on a concept but get frustrated with how it looks half way, and tell myself that I need to practise more and stop.

Great read and very inspiring! :)