Nix error message improvement

COLLECTIVE

other

Fiscal Host: codeops llc

A project to make errors more friendly in the nix tools.

This is Nix error message improvement's page Nix error message improvement

Contribute

All ways to contribute

Budget

Connect

Updates

About

Submit expense

Estimated Annual Budget

$1,004

Today's Balance

$2,800.36

Phase 3 continued: nix issues...

$11,000

Contribute

Become a financial contributor.

Financial Contributions

Custom contribution

Donation

Make a custom one-time or recurring contribution.

Latest activity by

+ 69

Top financial contributors

Individuals

Daniel Mueller

$1,180 USD since May 2020

das-g

$720 USD since Mar 2020

Chloe Kever

$500 USD since Jul 2021

Marek Fajkus

$340 USD since Apr 2020

Burke Libbey

$300 USD since Apr 2020

Incognito

$300 USD since Apr 2020

Anatolii Prylutskyi

$285 USD since Oct 2020

Gasper Vozel

$275 USD since Mar 2020

Simon Chatterjee

$260 USD since Apr 2020

Joshua Morris

$260 USD since Apr 2024

Organizations

Pareto Security

$3,620 USD since Mar 2020

Serokell OÜ

$1,000 USD since Apr 2020

Platonic.Systems

$1,000 USD since Jul 2021

Hypered

$600 USD since Mar 2020

flox

$300 USD since Nov 2022

Numtide

$140 USD since Nov 2022

Mercury

$100 USD since Apr 2020

Nix error message improvement is all of us

Our contributors 75

Thank you for supporting Nix error message improvement.

Ben Burdette

Admin

Domen Kozar

Admin

Organizer

Pareto Security

$3,620 USD

Daniel Mueller

$1,180 USD

Serokell OÜ

$1,000 USD

Platonic.Systems

$1,000 USD

das-g

$720 USD

Hypered

$600 USD

Chloe Kever

$500 USD

Marek Fajkus

$340 USD

Burke Libbey

$300 USD

incognito

$300 USD

Budget

Transparent and open finances.

Monthly financial contribution to Nix error message impro...

Credit from mike hall to Nix error message improvement • July 2, 2025

+$5.00USD

Completed

Contribution #802365

Monthly financial contribution to Nix error message impro...

Credit from pinage404 to Nix error message improvement • July 2, 2025

+$2.00USD

Completed

Contribution #796343

Monthly financial contribution to Nix error message impro...

Credit from Anatolii Prylutskyi to Nix error message improvement • July 1, 2025

+$5.00USD

Completed

Contribution #97957

Today’s balance

$2,800.36 USD

Total raised

$12,754.36 USD

Total disbursed

$9,954.00 USD

Estimated annual budget

$1,004.00 USD

Connect

Let’s get the ball rolling!

News from Nix error message improvement

Updates on our activities and progress.

Nix-errors is back!

Hi all! When I finally got the nix --debugger feature merged, nix-errors was about 20 hours in the red. Since then we've been inching back to being paid up thanks to some long term contributors. Domen Kozar recently did a little PR campaign...

Published on November 7, 2022 by Ben Burdette

Nix debugger PR is merged!

I've been working on a nix debugger feature for over a year now, and its finally merged! Here's an overview: https://www.zknotes.com/note/5970...

Published on May 26, 2022 by Ben Burdette

Revising our nix errors road map - phase 3+

We're revamping the funding goals for the nix error improvement project! The original phase 3 involved a comprehensive review and revision of all the existing errors, followed by a phase 4 where we address specific pain points from the nix...

Published on July 16, 2020 by Ben Burdette

About

"Nix errors enhancement" is me, Ben Burdette. I'll be working on this for a few months most likely, to improve error messages throughout nix and the nix tools.

Check out the proposal for more details.

Our team

Ben Burdette

Admin

Domen Kozar

Admin

Organizer