(I do not have permissions to post in Announcements, so I am sharing this here. Moderators are welcome to move it.) nix-manipulator is a Python library and CLI for parsing, transforming, and reconstructing Nix while preserving comments and layout, in line with RFC 166. It is built on Tree-sitter using the nix-community grammar. Motivations Nix is often described as “JSON on steroids”. I like this definition but did not find an easy way to update the values in a Nix file without doing string re...
Wow, that’s awesome. Hopefully that can breathe some new life into SnowflakeOS! My attempts at manipulating nix code went through a nix parser that I can’t remember the name of. That’s when I found (or came up with? dunno) the importJson function. But this could be cleaner and more reviewable + definitely allows for things like function calls to take advantage of the “JSON on steroids” aspect the author mentioned.
Wow, that’s awesome. Hopefully that can breathe some new life into SnowflakeOS! My attempts at manipulating nix code went through a nix parser that I can’t remember the name of. That’s when I found (or came up with? dunno) the
importJsonfunction. But this could be cleaner and more reviewable + definitely allows for things like function calls to take advantage of the “JSON on steroids” aspect the author mentioned.Thanks for sharing 🙏
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