Farid Zakaria introduces jinx, a tool that compiles Nix to TypeScript, enabling all 231,777 attributes of nixpkgs to produce the same drvPath results as native Nix. The project lets users evaluate nixpkgs packages like hello directly in their browser with no Nix installation required, preserving two decades of nixpkgs work while exploring the store model through a new language ecosystem.
Background
Nixpkgs is one of the largest open-source package repositories with over 140,000 buildable packages, written in the Nix functional language. Previous attempts to reimplement or fork Nix have struggled because they lacked access to this extensive package ecosystem.
- Source
- Lobsters
- Published
- Oct 13, 2026 at 06:55 PM
- Score
- 6.0 / 10