Idea: Comparison with snowfall

[TakodaS]

snowfall is a very popular opinionated code organizer built on top of flake utils+ and beloved by NixOS users. For this reason, I can see a number of benefits over std:

1. Better futureproofing against changes to flakes which is especially important since flakes are still experimental.
2. Easier to define NixOS modules and configurations for integration testing. Even though snowfall is best known for NixOS configurations, I get a lot of mileage for local projects. My usual workflow is to create ./package/service-app/default.nix, define some unit tests for that package either using the in-built testing functionality of the language or using runCommand, create a corresponding nixosModule test integration with runNixOSTest under ./checks/. I could even imagine defining nixosConfigurations for particularly complicated integration testing and have no problem implementing this with snowfall. On the contrary, I have no idea how I might do the same in std.
3. Lighter weight. std comes with a lot of baggage, some of which is good (adbrecords!), some of which is bad (lefthook is dragged along when I want to use cachix-maintained pre-commit), and some of which is just plain ugly (generating treefmt.toml files when treefmt has direct integration with nix!)

Overall it has left me with the desire for and smaller, std-style code organization and typing that follows the flake-output schema (maybe with flake-parts' flakeModules included) rather than the monolithic devops framework that exists. Perhaps I have gotten the wrong end of the stick here, but I don't see any benefit, and plenty of drawbacks, over something like snowfall. If you could add a comparison section for snowfall that would be very useful!

[blaggacao]

Yeah, that looks like cool stuff. I can certainly see a huge intersection of goals.

I can't do a direct comparison. Not sure if all your points above are really well-researched, but the tenor looks somewhat justified.

To dive a bit deeper, there's: https://github.com/paisano-nix in an attempt to factorize things a little more, based of which, there's https://github.com/divnix/hive as well.

But snowfall lib looks like a suitable toolbox, as well. Nothing bad to say about it from over here. 😄

Maybe I might be missing the TUI / CLI a bit 🤷 — https://github.com/paisano-nix/tui