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Theme fund: NGI0 Commons Fund
Start: 2025-06
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Lix RPC

RPC framework for scaling Nix

Nix is becoming increasingly important in build environments and deployment systems around the world, but the communication protocols it uses internally harken back to a much simpler time and are neither easy to extend with new features nor easy to use from anything except the `nix` CLI tools (which are even harder to version and evolve without breaking things). We will tackle both of these problems by adding a modern and extensible RPC protocol to Lix, using widely supported frameworks available in many languages.

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This project was funded through the NGI0 Commons Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No 101135429. Additional funding is made available by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI).