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edolstra / nix-lang.md
Last active May 11, 2025 15:28
Nix language changes

This document contains some ideas for additions to the Nix language.

Motivation

The Nix package manager, Nixpkgs and NixOS currently have several problems:

  • Poor discoverability of package options. Package functions have function arguments like enableFoo, but there is no way for the Nix UI to discover them, let alone to provide programmatic ways to
@Miouyouyou
Miouyouyou / Linux_DRM_OpenGLES.c
Last active April 21, 2025 13:40
An example, inspired by Rob Clark "kmscube.c" that uses Linux Direct Rendering Manager ( DRM ) and EGL to create an OpenGL ES 2 context. This is a standalone example, that just clears the screen with a blueish color. Usable with Rockchip DRM drivers and Mali Wayland/DRM userspace drivers.
// gcc -o drmgl Linux_DRM_OpenGLES.c `pkg-config --cflags --libs libdrm` -lgbm -lEGL -lGLESv2
/*
* Copyright (c) 2012 Arvin Schnell <arvin.schnell@gmail.com>
* Copyright (c) 2012 Rob Clark <rob@ti.com>
* Copyright (c) 2017 Miouyouyou <Myy> <myy@miouyouyou.fr>
*
* Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
* copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
* to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation