What does HackerNews think of robotnix?

CalyxOS is an awesome project. I have worked with the lead developer a bit over the past few years and it's been such a pleasure. We share some bits of code between our projects here: https://github.com/AOSPAlliance.

If anyone is interested in building their own custom android OS in the cloud (AWS) with same ability to lock your bootloader like CalyxOS, you can checkout my project I've been maintaining for a few years now called RattlesnakeOS: https://github.com/dan-v/rattlesnakeos-stack.

And if you prefer to not build in the cloud, there is also a really great project called robotnix (https://github.com/danielfullmer/robotnix) which provides a way to build many flavors of OS (AOSP, GrapheneOS, LineageOS, etc).

A few days ago, I came across RobotNix[0] which uses Nix to deterministically build custom Android images. Since I really want to adapt Android to my needs but have always struggled with building it on my own (what a shitty and complicated build system), I'm now very inclined to learn Nix. I'm not sure I like the syntax but hopefully I'll get used to it.

Another reason I'm quite excited about Nix is that in my team we're currently using a whole bunch of tools like pip, Conda, npm all at the same time to manage our dependencies and it's starting to become really cumbersome to set up the dev and production environments correctly across different operating systems and architectures. For instance, Conda doesn't exist on arm64, lots of pip packages have to be compiled by hand on arm64 etc. etc. It's a mess that I'd love to get rid of.

[0]: https://github.com/danielfullmer/robotnix/