Have you ever found yourself wanting to work on a rust project on NixOS without having to write a flake.nix or a shell.nix for that project? You need rust-nix-shell, a program halfway between rustup and nix-shell! No more are the glibc errors that plague rustup on NixOS; gone are the horrible nix-shell -E '...' incantations to set RUST_SRC_PATH properly in an ephemeral shell.
rust-nix-shell allows you to create a shell environment with any version of rust, à la rustup. You can also specify other dependencies with -p, à la nix-shell.
This program shells out to nix-shell, finding it from $PATH. It also by default calls zsh from $PATH, but this is configurable
rust-nix-shell --help
You can specify the channel as an optional argument. This must be one of:
stablebetanightly- A specific nightly:
nightly-YYYY-mm-dd - A rust tagged release, e.g.
1.60or1.58.1
Available under the terms of version 2.0 of the Mozilla Public Licence