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Sun 05 Sep 2021

Fast Rust Builds

It’s common knowledge that Rust code is slow to compile. But I have a strong gut feeling that most Rust code out there compiles much slower than it could.

Source: Fast Rust Builds, an article by Aleksey Kladov.

Building a Reproducible Data Science Environment with Nix

Nix is a 100% reproducible package manager, for all languages and all things. This means your python environment, your R environment, your models, your entire computer can be completely reproduced, all using the magic of nix. In this article, we will walk through setting up a simple, reproducible, and failproof data science stack with nix, including importing packages not found on nixpkgs and caching the builds online

Source: Building a Reproducible Data Science Environment with Nix, an article by David Josephs.