🚨 New Blog Post Alert! 🚨
My latest blog post is again about the intersection of the Java and NixOS ecosystems. This time I wrote a derivation that packages the jfmt formatter as a statically linked binary using GraalVM for use as a formatter in Neovim. It also includes some tips for debugging non-reproducible derivations.
👉 Full Story: https://britter.dev/blog/2026/05/06/jfmt-nixvim/
📄 Code: https://github.com/britter/nix-configuration/blob/de29395c70bba3a5d2b416b97bd8e5cc6955944d/packages/jfmt-java/default.nix
#nixos #java #graalvm #neovim #nixvim
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