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Vincent Ambo 27bc8cb3d4 fix(tvix/eval): open/close additional scope around `with` This is required to correctly clean up the `with` values. At the moment, the attrset from which identifiers are being taken is always pushed on the stack. This means that it must also be removed again, otherwise in an expression like with { a = 15; }; a The final stack is `[ { a = 15; } 15 ]` after the last operation, which means that the attrset is still on there as garbage. This has little practical impact right now because it is always shadowed by the fact that the actual expression value is at the right location, but becomes relevant when accounting for upvalue captures. Change-Id: I69e9745bfaa4d6bbcb60ee71f4dc3f8d8695d16a Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/6303 Tested-by: BuildkiteCI Reviewed-by: sterni <sternenseemann@systemli.org>		2022-09-04 17:40:10 +00:00
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benches	test(tvix/eval): Add attr merge benchmarks	2022-09-03 06:56:02 +00:00
docs	docs(tvix/eval): add an overview of all builtins in Nix	2022-09-02 12:59:23 +00:00
src	fix(tvix/eval): open/close additional scope around `with`	2022-09-04 17:40:10 +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	test(tvix/eval): Add attr merge benchmarks	2022-09-03 06:56:02 +00:00
Cargo.toml	test(tvix/eval): Add attr merge benchmarks	2022-09-03 06:56:02 +00:00
default.nix	chore(tvix/eval): Build with --all-targets	2022-09-02 19:10:45 +00:00
README.md	docs(tvix/eval): add a note on how to run Nix tests	2022-09-03 00:47:58 +00:00

README.md

Tvix Evaluator

This project implements an interpreter for the Nix programming language.

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

Work on this project is extremely in-progress, and the state of the project in the public repository may not necessarily reflect the state of the private codebase, as we are slowly working on publishing it.

We expect this to have caught up in a handful of weeks (as of 2022-08-12).

Please contact TVL with any questions you might have.

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.