Experimental Features

Feature flags and experimental Nix capabilities.

Contents

• Feature Flags Overview — How experimental features work
• nix-command — Unified CLI flag
• flakes — Flakes experimental flag
• ca-derivations — Content-addressed derivations
• dynamic-derivations — Dynamic derivations
• recursive-nix — Nix-in-Nix builds
• impure-derivations — Impure derivations
• Pipe Operators and Lang — Language experimental features
• fetchTree and Git — Fetch-related experiments
• auto-allocate-uids — UID allocation
• cgroups — cgroup build isolation
• Tracking Stabilization — What landed vs still experimental
• Experimental backlog — Flags without dedicated wiki leaves (manual is authoritative)