Nix-based CI can get really nice caching once you set it up properly. This is a run where none of the actual code changes. Only slow thing is the "nix develop" which builds the dev environment. It spends all it's time downloading from a remote cache. But once I move this to a self-hosted runner, then that cache can exist locally on the machine and this will also take just a few seconds.
None of this tooling depends on GitHub's way of doing things, which is nice. No vendor lockin.
Can you share the link to the project, please?
https://github.com/justinmoon/bar
It's just a little demo of a mobile app development toolkit i'm making. But the nix setup is pretty nice.
Thank you. Wasabi also has a nix-based CI but we still have to improve it. I will check what I can learn from your setup.
I learned pretty much everything I know from http://github.com/dpc
He's pretty easy to contact via twitter or fedimint's discord. He's a nix wizard!
holy moly, does this guy ever hate javascript.
