Reading up on Farid Zakaria
2 deep · digging since aug 21
- The holy grail of nixpkgs: version ranges
Farid Zakaria demonstrates how to add version‑range support to Nixpkgs using a clingo‑based solver (grail) that queries the nixpkgs multiverse for compatible revisions.
- Three ways to smuggle SQLite into Nix
The author demonstrates four methods—exec, importNative, giant Nix file, and WASM—to embed SQLite queries in Nix, comparing their speed and resource usage.