Rust Toolchains using Nix

There are many ways to Rust using Nix. This article:

• Reviews existing articles on setting up Rust toolchains
• Describes several of the approaches ordered by popularity, maturity and benefits.

References

• Documentation for Rust language frameworks in nixpkgs
• Development Environment for Rust on the nixlang wiki
• Nix shell with rustup on the ayats.org blog

Just rustup

The simplest way to get started is just adding rustup to your system configuration:

{ pkgs, ... }: {
  environment.systemPackages = [
    pkgs.rustup
  ];
}