Rustshop Flakebox - a full Rust dev env / DX flake with crane inside

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https://github.com/rustshop/flakebox

Some background and motivation: Over last year of working professionally on a Nix + Rust based project, we’ve built a great CI, lints, polished things etc. It’s really lovely to work with. Crane was used for build Rust in the CI the whole time.

The problem is - now I want the same experience everywhere, and I can’t be copying and constantly updating the same set of files (scripts, configs, etc.) between projects. At the core, I want the same thing in every Rust project (+/- some customizations).

So this is what I’m trying to build. You import a flake, do some minimal initial setup and it will generate and set up everything for you. With time you can customize locally and contribute the things you need upstream, so you can reuse in all your projects.

As I'm happy with crane, Flakehub will also include basic crane and fenix support. Nothing too facy. flekeboxLib has a flakeboxLib.{craneLib,craneNightlyLib,craneStableLib} which are well... just craneLib from crane with a toolchain initialized, ready to go.

I thought it might be worth mentioning.