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Snix is a modern Rust re-implementation of the components of the Nix package
manager.

Snix modularity & composability allows recombining its parts in novel ways. It
also provides library access to Nix data formats and concepts. In the long-run,
Snix aims to produce a Nixpkgs-compatible alternative to [NixOS/nix][] with
respects to evaluation and building Nix expressions & systems.

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Snix still is in its early stages of development. None of our current APIs
should be considered stable in any way.

There is no full-featured drop-in replacement for Nix on your machine yet.
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Snix already provides a few binaries / tools exposing some usecases, such as:

 * A `snix-store` binary, providing access to `snix-[ca]store`
   *  run a gRPC daemon exposing contents to other parties
   *  import local files or copy store paths into `snix-store`
   *  provide FUSE or virtiofs views into `snix-store`.
 * `nar-bridge`, a Nix HTTP Binary Cache frontend for `snix-store`.
    It allows Nix to interact with `snix-store`, both to substitute from as well
    as copy into.
 * `snix-boot`, tooling to boot microVMs off of `snix-store` (using virtiofs)
 * `snix-cli`, combining various components together to provide a Nix evaluator
    CLI and REPL.
 * `snixbolt`, a version of the Snix evaluator running in your browser (using
   WASM)

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Early adopters are encouraged to use (and extend) Snix to solve their
own usecases.
If you're missing certain functionality, or run into bugs, [reach out](),
so we can coordinate how to add/fix it.
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Snix is developed as a GPLv3-licensed free software project with source code
available on [our own Forgejo](https://git.snix.dev/) instance.

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![NLNET](../assets/nlnet-logo.png)

Snix is [generously funded][nlnet-proj-snix-store-build] by [NLNET][].
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[NixOS/nix]: https://github.com/NixOS/nix
[NLNET]: https://nlnet.nl
[nlnet-proj-snix-store-build]: https://nlnet.nl/project/Snix-Store_Builder/