See Setup
Nix is a build tool/package manager with its own language (DSL) and package repository nixpkgs. The installer created by determinate systems also allows easy uninstallation so we prefer this over the official installation script
Nixpkgs has stable releases and an unstable branch which is essentially the latest version/nightly build. However the flake lock-file pins the version of nixpkgs to a specific commit.
Acts as a glue between Nix and MacOS, allows declarative MacOS configuration inspired by NixOS. Manages itself after bootstrapping.
sudo darwin-rebuild switch --flake .#GNRSN/MacBook
Activation ends by running scripts/log-packages.sh, which dumps the exact installed versions to packages.txt and brew.txt so upgrades show up in git history. Exclusions are defined at the top of the script.
Symlink utility, I use this for configs since I want them to be editable with instant refresh.
See discussion in https://github.com/omerxx/dotfiles/issues/10
Requires to be installed for dependencies that compile from source.
Rustup manages the rust entire rust toolchain, installing versioned cargo through nix seemed overkill for now.
This approach requires installing the toolchain manually through: rustup default stable
Node JS, nub and pnpm are installed through Mise (dot-config/mise/config.toml), bump them with mise upgrade
nub and pnpm come from the mise registry as native binaries, avoiding the node bootstrap of npm globals and corepack
pnpm switches to the version in a project's packageManager field by itself, so corepack is not needed
Global JS CLIs go in the same [tools] table through the npm backend, e.g. "npm:<package>" = "latest"