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Vincent Ambo 813fb98470 refactor(tvix/eval): Upgrade to latest rnix-parser Since the latest published version of rnix-parser on crates.io, the crate has undergone major changes which are only available in the git repository at the moment. This commit updates the compiler to this newer version of rnix. Most notably, the entire AST provided by rnix is now wrapped in the AST type system. As a result of this traversal is much nicer in many places, especially for things like nested attribute selection. There are a handful of smaller features missing for full feature parity with the previous version, especially handling of path literals, but PRs for these already exist in rnix-parser. Change-Id: Icde6d393067976549492b7d89c4cc49e5e575fc7 Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/6231 Reviewed-by: sterni <sternenseemann@systemli.org> Tested-by: BuildkiteCI		2022-09-01 17:41:22 +00:00
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benches	feat(tvix/eval): Add initial benchmarking infrastructure	2022-08-25 16:03:55 +00:00
docs	docs(tvix/eval): add design documentation for attrset opcodes	2022-08-13 15:31:50 +00:00
src	refactor(tvix/eval): Upgrade to latest rnix-parser	2022-09-01 17:41:22 +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	refactor(tvix/eval): Upgrade to latest rnix-parser	2022-09-01 17:41:22 +00:00
Cargo.toml	refactor(tvix/eval): Upgrade to latest rnix-parser	2022-09-01 17:41:22 +00:00
default.nix	test(tvix/eval): make sure all language tests also pass with C++ Nix	2022-08-26 20:46:03 +00:00
README.md	docs(tvix/eval): add README note on running the Nix test suite	2022-08-24 23:11:12 +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.

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.