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Nix lang v2

Development Design planning

The Nix language unfortunately is full of little and big design accidents. Only so much can be fi...

Updated 2 months ago by piegames

Docs rewrite plans

Development Design planning

Here, for now (public edit link): https://pad.lix.systems/lix-docs-planning

Updated 2 months ago by jade

Language versioning

Development Design planning

This document is extremely a draft. It needs some editing and discussion before it can be made in...

Updated 2 months ago by jade

Dreams

Development Design planning

This page documents the dreams of the Lix team. These are features which we have generally not ro...

Updated 2 months ago by piegames

regexp engine investigation

Development Design planning

nix uses libstdc++'s std::regex. it uses whatever version of libstdc++ the host system has. which...

Updated 2 months ago by jade

Freezes and recommended contributions

Contributing Working in the Lix codebase

Suggested contributions Consider taking an issue marked E-help wanted: assign it to yourself and ...

Updated 2 months ago by piegames

2025-06-27 Wiki work

Contributing Discussion notes

Date: 2025-06-27 Present: jade, piegames Topic: Information organization in the wiki and the hom...

Updated 2 months ago by piegames

Why Gerrit?

Contributing Intro to Gerrit

Gerrit produces better code: Gerrit enforces good commit messages. "PR message" and "commit mess...

Updated 2 months ago by jade

Commit porting (cherry-picking) guide

Contributing Working in the Lix codebase

This guide is primarily about CppNix->Lix commit ports and was written when we were doing a lot o...

Updated 2 months ago by jade

Gerrit

Contributing Working in the Lix codebase

FIXME: this page is duplicating a lot of content from the Gerrit section and should be considered...

Updated 2 months ago by jade

Running Lix main

Contributing

Thank you for choosing to help us dogfood in our daily development! If you run into any issues, y...

Updated 2 months ago by helle

2024-04-29 – Lix Release Bootstrapping

Contributing Discussion notes

Agenda Prohibited items: Nix foundation politics, for everyone's safety Core Agenda: Figure ou...

Updated 2 months ago by piegames

Lix Governance

Lix organisation

Moved to https://lix.systems/governance/

Updated 3 months ago by piegames

Gerrit with Jujutsu

Contributing Intro to Gerrit

Jujutsu has a very similar model to Gerrit and natively supports sending Gerrit changes! You’ll n...

Updated 4 months ago by Max Siling

Debugging weird DNS resolutions inside sandbox

Lix users

Run this with pasta: $ nix-build -E 'let pkgs = (import <nixpkgs> {}); in pkgs.runCommand "resolv...

Updated 6 months ago by Raito Bezarius

Nix Resources

Lix users

Lix doesn't exist in a vacuum—but instead builds atop the incredible work of dozens of NixOS comm...

Updated 8 months ago by piegames

Related projects

Lix users

This page lists community projects that are built with, optimized for, or make specific use of Li...

Updated 8 months ago by piegames

Code of Conduct

Lix organisation

Moved to https://lix.systems/community-standards/

Updated 8 months ago by piegames

2025-06-26 Lix NixOS Module

Contributing Discussion notes

Date: 2025-06-26 Participants: Niko, k900, piegames, Raito Topic: The current state of the Lix N...

Updated 9 months ago by piegames

Contributor permissions and Code Owners

Contributing

One might wonder how permissions work on Lix and how one can help out with certain tasks. This is...

Updated 9 months ago by jade