Any Nix package, live in your browser

34 points by diktomat a day ago on lobsters | 3 comments

tuxes | 22 hours ago

Packages added to a running VM appear in the shell straight away

Now that's just showing off.

Very cool.

Tangentially related... when I learned of https://rr-project.org/ I figured it would form the basis of some web UI to share reproducible bugs with a project maintainer that could be stepped through by the project maintainer.

What better way to demonstrate a bug than record the steps, and upload that as some closure that could be stepped through in a WebAssembly'd QEMU web browser by the maintainer.

Or a CI service could do something similar. "Test X failed. Click here to step through."

Perhaps that idea was lacking something like https://trynix.dev/ .

masot | 18 hours ago

Not sure if you're implicitly referencing it, but what you're describing (right down to the CI integration with GitHub Actions) sounds almost exactly like Pernos.co (https://pernos.co/), which I believe came from one of the primary rr developers.

supermarin | 16 hours ago

feature request: build & run a nixpkgs PR