julia-nixos

This derivation is deprecated now that Julia 1.6 is in Nixpkgs (NixOS/nixpkgs#123188).

NixOS derivation for Julia 1.6.

In practise, this derivation works well for me. It's how I use Julia daily and do most of my development. However, I found two issues with this derivation:

• REPL crashes in some cases when terminating a running process (timholy/Revise.jl#602)
• Cairo.jl doesn't work (JuliaGraphics/Cairo.jl#336)

According to Pontus Stenetorp, this is due to the fact that the binary isn't patched.

Usage

Place the file next to /etc/nixos/configuration.nix and import it with

imports = [
  ./julia.nix
]

after a

nixos-rebuild switch

you will have Julia 1.6 available globally.

Extra

Let me know if you want to call R packages with this derivation, I have some code for that lying around.