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Change-Id: I1a7a0ee88a30379b9c4b18ff0a304d5deb3b1648 Reviewed-on: https://cl.snix.dev/c/snix/+/30627 Autosubmit: Axel Karjalainen <axel@axka.fi> Tested-by: besadii Reviewed-by: Florian Klink <flokli@flokli.de>
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title: "About Snix"
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slug: about
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description: ""
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summary: ""
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date: 2025-03-14T14:14:35+01:00
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lastmod: 2025-03-14T14:14:35+01:00
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draft: false
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weight: 999
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---
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<center>
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{{< inline-svg src="snix-logo.svg" width="200px" height="200px" class="svg-inline-custom svg-monochrome" >}}
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</center>
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Snix is a modern Rust re-implementation of the components of the Nix package
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manager.
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Snix modularity & composability allows recombining its parts in novel ways. It
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also provides library access to Nix data formats and concepts. In the long-run,
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Snix aims to produce a Nixpkgs-compatible alternative to [NixOS/nix][] with
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respects to evaluation and building Nix expressions & systems.
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{{< callout >}}
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Snix still is in its early stages of development. None of our current APIs
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should be considered stable in any way.
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There is no full-featured drop-in replacement for Nix on your machine yet.
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{{</callout>}}
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Snix already provides a few binaries / tools exposing some usecases, such as:
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* A `snix-store` binary, providing access to `snix-[ca]store`
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* run a gRPC daemon exposing contents to other parties
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* import local files or copy store paths into `snix-store`
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* provide FUSE or virtiofs views into `snix-store`.
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* `nar-bridge`, a Nix HTTP Binary Cache frontend for `snix-store`.
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It allows Nix to interact with `snix-store`, both to substitute from as well
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as copy into.
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* `snix-boot`, tooling to boot microVMs off of `snix-store` (using virtiofs)
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* `snix-cli`, combining various components together to provide a Nix evaluator
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CLI and REPL.
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* `snixbolt`, a version of the Snix evaluator running in your browser (using
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WASM)
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{{<callout>}}
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Early adopters are encouraged to use (and extend) Snix to solve their
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own usecases.
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If you're missing certain functionality, or run into bugs, [reach out](),
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so we can coordinate how to add/fix it.
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{{</callout>}}
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Snix is developed as a GPLv3-licensed free software project with source code
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available on [our own Forgejo](https://git.snix.dev/) instance.
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<hr>
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<center>
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Snix is [generously funded][nlnet-proj-snix-store-build] by [NLNET][].
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</center>
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---
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[NixOS/nix]: https://github.com/NixOS/nix
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[NLNET]: https://nlnet.nl
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[nlnet-proj-snix-store-build]: https://nlnet.nl/project/Snix-Store_Builder/
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[reach out]: {{< relref "contact" >}}
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