tvl-depot/tvix/eval
Griffin Smith 03a3189a3d feat(tvix/eval): Initial impl of builtins.match
Implement an *initial* version of builtins.match, using the rust `regex`
crate for regular expressions. The rust regex crate definitely has
different semantics than nix's regular expressions - but we'd like to
see how far we can get before the incompatibility starts to matter.

This consciously leaves out any sort of memo for compiled regular
expressions (which upstream nix also has) for the sake of expediency -
in the future we should implement that so we don't have to compile the
same regular expression multiple times.

Change-Id: I5b718635831ec83397940e417a9047c4342b6fa1
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/6989
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
Reviewed-by: Adam Joseph <adam@westernsemico.com>
Reviewed-by: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
2022-10-15 20:35:22 +00:00
..
benches refactor(tvix/eval): use Clap for arg+env parsing 2022-09-18 22:08:43 +00:00
docs fix(tvix/eval): bring foldl' strictness in line with C++ Nix 2022-10-15 14:12:23 +00:00
proptest-regressions/value test(tvix/eval): Add tests for the Eq laws of Value 2022-09-18 17:57:09 +00:00
src feat(tvix/eval): Initial impl of builtins.match 2022-10-15 20:35:22 +00:00
tests feat(tvix/eval): Allow adding strings to paths 2022-10-10 20:23:41 +00:00
.envrc chore(tvix/eval): add simple .envrc / shell.nix 2022-09-17 17:31:08 +00:00
.gitignore feat(tvix/eval): check in generated project skeleton 2022-08-12 12:34:29 +00:00
.skip-subtree feat(tvix/tests): check in Nix' language test suite 2022-08-24 21:25:41 +00:00
Cargo.lock feat(tvix/eval): Initial impl of builtins.match 2022-10-15 20:35:22 +00:00
Cargo.toml feat(tvix/eval): Initial impl of builtins.match 2022-10-15 20:35:22 +00:00
default.nix feat(tvix/eval): Implement builtins.fromJSON 2022-10-15 20:35:22 +00:00
README.md docs(tvix/eval): explain where to find the site-specific mg tool 2022-10-13 18:41:02 +00:00
shell.nix chore(tvix/eval): add rustfmt to the shell 2022-09-18 23:19:54 +00:00

Tvix Evaluator

This project implements an interpreter for the Nix programming language. You can experiment with an online version of the evaluator: tvixbolt.

The interpreter aims to be compatible with nixpkgs, on the foundation of Nix 2.3.

Important note: The evaluator is not yet feature-complete, and while the core mechanisms (compiler, runtime, ...) have stabilised somewhat, a lot of components are still changing rapidly.

Please contact TVL with any questions you might have.

Building the evaluator

If you are in a full checkout of the TVL depot, you can simply run mg build in this directory (or mg build //tvix/eval from anywhere in the repo). The mg command is found in /tools/magrathea.

Important note: We only use and test Nix builds of our software against Nix 2.3. There are a variety of bugs and subtle problems in newer Nix versions which we do not have the bandwidth to address, builds in newer Nix versions may or may not work.

The evaluator can also be built with standard Rust tooling (i.e. cargo build).

If you would like to clone only the evaluator and build it directly with Rust tooling, you can do:

git clone https://code.tvl.fyi/depot.git:/tvix/eval.git tvix-eval

cd tvix-eval && cargo build

Nix test suite

C++ Nix implements a language test suite in the form of Nix source code files, and their expected output. The coverage of this test suite is not complete, but we intend to be compatible with it.

We have ported the test suite to Tvix, but do not run it by default as we are not yet compatible with it.

You can run the test suite by enabling the nix_tests feature in Cargo:

cargo test --features nix_tests

rnix-parser

Tvix is written in memory of jD91mZM2, the author of rnix-parser who sadly passed away.

Tvix makes heavy use of rnix-parser in its bytecode compiler. The parser is now maintained by Nix community members.