In reply to @tomberek:matrix.org
Andrés Rodríguez: there is a template here as well. We'd like to improve the quality of them so that this becomes the quick/easy answer for anyone beginning a Rust project. Please file an issue (or PR!) in that repo with anything you learn so we can improve.

In reply to @akadude:matrix.org
Hey, I am coming from here: https://github.com/oxalica/rust-overlay/issues/72. How do I use nightly channel? Here is my default.nix: https://gitlab.com/aka_dude/lobsters-best-bot/-/blob/nix-build/default.nix

For buildRustPackage, do something like:

let
  pkgs = ...;
  pinnedRust = pkgs.rust-bin.xxx;
  rustPlatform = pkgs.makeRustPlatform {
    rustc = pinnedRust;
    cargo = pinnedRust;
  };
in rustPlatform.buildRustPackage {
  ...
}

In reply to @akadude:matrix.org
This works! General question: is there a place where I can find full documentation on these things? Like, if I was writing a buildscript in Shake, haddock+official tutorial would be pretty much everything I need. But in Nix's case, even https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/#compiling-rust-applications-with-cargo doesn't say anything about makeRustPlatform and what kind of keys it accepts. Ideally, I think, I want typed documentation :)

In reply to @akadude:matrix.org
Also, the manual mentions carnix, but you didn't. Is there something wrong with it? I want to give it a try, since my current default.nix doesn't cache at all

In reply to @mixedCase:matrix.org
Hey everyone. I'm trying to start a Rust project and would like to have Nix working from the start. Is there any boilerplate for this that's more up to date than https://github.com/srid/rust-nix-template?

In reply to @drupol:matrix.org
yes ! https://github.com/tkellogg/dura <- see there the flake.nix. Also, if you would like to hack into rust in a few minutes from any Nix powered machine, just do: nix develop github:loophp/rust-shell#stable-default