[Nix-dev] nix as a library

Maarten Hoogendoorn maarten at moretea.nl
Tue Jul 12 14:20:40 CEST 2016


You could try to modify nix-repl to have a "daemon" mode, that listens on a
unix socket, and implements a simple json protocol. This could also open
doors for easy evaluation of nix-lang snippets in text editors.

2016-07-09 19:16 GMT+02:00 stewart mackenzie <setori88 at gmail.com>:

> Hmm on second thoughts, it's probably best to expose a nix-repl... it
> would be much more powerful. Thanks for than Vladimir!
>
> The user interface (ie compile button, whatever) could just write
> strings directly into the repl then linefeed, or you could just type
> it yourself.
>
> This would simplify things quite a lot actually.
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