NixCon 2025 Trip Report 🐝
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- The author attended NixCon 2025 in Rapperswil, Switzerland, at OST University of Applied Sciences.
- Friday included talks on Nix-based CI (cloud.devenv.sh), Hydra queue runner rewrite in Rust, Nix dev shells, and adoption stories from Shopify and ASML.
- Lightning talks on Friday covered Determinate Nix features, NixOS for friends/family, and systemd-sysupdate for A/B updates.
- Saturday featured workshops and talks on the official Nix formatter, NixOS integration tests, and when to use Nix vs. other config methods.
- Sunday was a hack day with collaborative project work and networking.
- The conference was well-organized with high-quality talks, custom break music, and Swiss chocolate gifts.
- Key takeaways include incremental Nix adoption strategies and the value of community-driven open-source events.