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Vincent Ambo a0acbfa470 refactor(tvix/eval): refactor methods for parsing static idents Refactors the methods used for determining whether an identifier in a binding (i.e. an `rnix::Attr` node) is a static string, and extracting it. Previously all uses of this logic were for `let`-expressions, where dynamic attributes are always an error. However, we need the same logic to properly implement the phase separation of attribute set compilation. To facilitate this, the actual core logic of these methods now return `Option`, and are only converted to errors in cases where the errors are actually required. Change-Id: Iad7826eff2cb428182521c6f92276310edeae1eb Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/6498 Tested-by: BuildkiteCI Reviewed-by: sterni <sternenseemann@systemli.org>		2022-09-11 12:26:23 +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 some notes on recursive attribute sets	2022-09-11 12:26:23 +00:00
src	refactor(tvix/eval): refactor methods for parsing static idents	2022-09-11 12:26:23 +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	feat(tvix/eval): implement DisassemblingObserver for compiler	2022-09-09 21:10:10 +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.