I’ve added support for nix flakes if you’re interested. I use nix for my rust environment rather than having it all installed system wide.

I’m not familiar with nix and nix flakes, so this may be a dumb question: is this something we could put in a contrib/nix folder? It seems like the it’s packaging information for nix and it strikes me as odd to keep it in the source repository.

Nix (separate from NixOS) sets up an independent environment with everything required so that the global install space isn’t polluted. e.g. I don’t have anything related to rust directly installed on my machine. Instead I use nix to create the environment as needed. You could think of it (in this context) as something like Bundler for Ruby.

You can see something similar in pijul/pijul (though it uses a slightly different set up). It’s very common for the flake etc to live in the root, but I believe it can live somewhere else if preferred. I don’t really have a strong opinion either way, other than I usually see it in the root.

I have a commit locally, so if you don’t want it in the project at all that’s fine too! 😀