Blessed

Nix has a vast ecosystem, struggling to find the current best practice for a specific task is a common complaint from new Nix users. This list attempts to answer those questions.

Tooling

Developer tools for working with Nix projects.

Linting

• statix - Lints and suggestions for the Nix programming language
• deadnix - Scan Nix files for dead code

Code Formatting

• nixpkgs-fmt - Nix code formatter for nixpkgs

Editor Integration

• nil - NIx Language server, an incremental analysis assistent for writing in Nix
• tree-sitter-nix - Nix grammar for tree-sitter

Language and Frameworks

Developer tools for working with other language and frameworks.

Rust

• rust-overlay - Pure and reproducible nix overlay of binary distributed rust toolchains

Haskell

• haskell-template - Haskell project template using Nix + Flakes + VSCode (HLS)