[philplckthun]

Nix is fantastic!

I’ve started using it with nix-darwin on macOS and replacing various dot files tools and loosely coupled files and installed dependencies using Homebrew with clear and declarative Nix scripts has really changed how I manage my development environment.

I even went as far as coding up colour scheme configurations to synchronise colours between Kitty, Tmux, and Neovim, and added some configs to compile Neovim from source to get to some of its newer features, and I don’t think I would’ve done any of that (or rather, kept any of that around) without Nix.

[siraben]

macOS + Nix user here. How is the experience of using nix-darwin? I haven't used it yet for fear of breakage (unlike in NixOS). I still have Homebrew but only for Casks, do you know if this too can be Nixified?

> I even went as far as coding up colour scheme configurations to synchronise colours between Kitty, Tmux, and Neovim, and added some configs to compile Neovim from source to get to some of its newer features, and I don’t think I would’ve done any of that (or rather, kept any of that around) without Nix.

This sounds interesting! Are your dotfiles public?

[philplckthun]

I haven’t really played around with installing browsers, etc via Nix on nix-darwin yet. The experience is really good for the most part! Setting it up initially is a little confusing since the installation has to create a volume for /nix, apart from that it’s really smooth.

I choose to replace Nix channels with in-code tarballs of the nixpkgs repository. Sometimes that does confuse darwin-rebuild but it could also be because I’ve set it up slightly incorrectly.

My Nix files are indeed open source! There’s a colour utility and a file that uses them to create theming files. https://github.com/kitten/nix-system/blob/master/config/colo...