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Nix error message improvement
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A project to make errors more friendly in the nix tools.
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Ben Burdette
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Pareto Security
$3,740 USD
Daniel Mueller
$1,180 USD
Serokell OÜ
$1,000 USD
Platonic.Systems
$1,000 USD
das-g
$840 USD
Hypered
$600 USD
Chloe Kever
$500 USD
Anatolii Pryl...
$345 USD
Marek Fajkus
$340 USD
Burke Libbey
$300 USD
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Updates on our activities and progress.
Nix Errors project - ending the opencollective account, ~40 hours of dev accumulated.
Hello nIx-error-message project contributors! Some time ago I did a couple of PRs for the nix-errors project - back in 2022. Since then the project has been inactive, but still slowly accumulating funds thanks to a few longterm contributors...
Published on July 6, 2026 by Ben Burdette
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
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"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.
Check out the proposal for more details.
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Ben Burdette
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