Nix, Rust Nightly, and VSCodium walk into a bar...

This repository intends to be a template for starting nix-based rust projects, with the nightly toolchain, and integration with VSCodium.

It's heavily inspired by trying to recreate the Remote Development Extension Pack workflow exclusive to proprietary VSCode. Ideally, in the future, one can define their VS Code extensions as part of the Nix Flake as well.

I have commented each file I think is relevant for understanding the Nix setup. There were quite a few tears shed trying to get a simple-to-understand config, so hopefully this will help any newcomers to Nix the package manager, and Nix the language, have an easier time.

Credits

I really couldn't have learned this bit of Nix without the help of the following blogs and people who add much needed context to Nix documentation:

• https://xeiaso.net/blog/how-i-start-nix-2020-03-08
• https://xeiaso.net/blog/nix-flakes-1-2022-02-21
• https://www.tomhoule.com/2021/building-rust-wasm-with-nix-flakes/
• https://blog.mplanchard.com/posts/nixifying-the-blog.html