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Vincent Ambo 9973ddfcba refactor(tvix/eval): refactor locals to use an enum for phantoms Instead of using sentinel values and an additional bool, this tracks the identifier of a local as an enum that is either a statically known name, or a phantom. To make this work correctly some more locals related logic has been encapsulated in the `scope` module, which is a good thing (that's the goal). Phantom values are now not initialised by default, but the only current call site of phantoms (`with` expression compilation) performs the initialisation right away. This commit changes no actual functionality right now, but paves the way for fixing an issue related to `let` bodies. Change-Id: I679f93a59a4daeacfe40f4012263cfb7bc05034e Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/6421 Reviewed-by: sterni <sternenseemann@systemli.org> Tested-by: BuildkiteCI		2022-09-08 13:36:26 +00:00
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benches	test(tvix/eval): Add attr merge benchmarks	2022-09-03 06:56:02 +00:00
docs	refactor(tvix/eval): return call frame result from VM::call	2022-09-08 12:53:20 +00:00
src	refactor(tvix/eval): refactor locals to use an enum for phantoms	2022-09-08 13:36:26 +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	chore(tvix/eval): bump all dependencies	2022-09-07 19:08:56 +00:00
Cargo.toml	chore(tvix/eval): bump all dependencies	2022-09-07 19:08:56 +00:00
default.nix	fix(tvix/eval): don't rebuild drv upon changes in cargo target dir	2022-09-04 21:02:50 +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.