This is an opinionated template for rust projects using Nix.

Template features

• CI template for Woodpecker.

• Forgejo commit message templates.

• Linting and formatting.

• Nix-centered development environment.

• Include language servers and all tooling in Nix dev shell.

Rust Opinions

• rust-overlay to manage rust version.

• nextest for running tests.

• mold for faster linking.

• rustfmt for code formatting.

• clippy for linting.

Dev tools by default

• direnv for automatic dev shell activation.

• Bacon - automatic and minimal interaction code checker.

• cargo-machete for removing unused dependencies.

• hyperfine for simple benchmarking.

• just for running things and discovery.

• watchexec (and cargo-watch) for watching files and running commands.

Nix opinions

• Crane for incremental artifact builds and nice set of checks.

• Advisory-db for automatic checking of vulnerabilities of dependencies.

• nix-filter allows filtering out files from the source input for a project.

• treefmt supports automatic code formatting of all kinds of source code.