nickhealy / pesto

Get a great development environment presto.

🌿 Pesto

Use Nix and Bazel to build C++ projects on Linux:

• Choose from thousands of packages: the Nix Packages collection is one of the largest Linux package repositories, with over 60 000 packages. Pesto uses it to provide C++ toolchain, build system and prebuilt libraries.

• Never worry about your development environment again: Nix makes it perfectly reproducible and self-contained. No need to use Docker containers.

• Speed up your builds and tests: Bazel provides fast and correct incremental builds.

• Enjoy IDE support with compilation database and Clangd

• Format and lint your code with Clang Format and Clang Tidy

• Choose between any version of Clang or GCC

Getting Started

• Install Nix

• Setup your project

• Add dependencies

• direnv integration - load development environment automatically by entering project directory.

• Package binaries and build Docker images

Advanced

• CI hacks

  Reuse Bazel cache when building with Nix.