Any Nix package, live in your browser

תקציר מקורי באנגלית<p><strong><a href="https://fzakaria.com/2026/09/04/any-nix-package-live-in-your-browser">Any Nix package, live in your browser</a></strong></p> Farid Zakaria calls this his "<em>magnum opus</em> of Nix work", and I can see why.</p> <p><a href="https://trynix.dev">trynix.dev</a> provides a <a href="https://github.com/ktock/qemu-wasm">qemu-wasm</a> powered x86_64 Linux virtual machine running entirely in your browser through WebAssembly. That VM can then be booted with <em>any Nix package</em> from the past 13 years. They are URL addressable, so you can navigate to this page:</p> <p><a href="https://trynix.dev/?pkg=python3%403.6.2">https://trynix.dev/?pkg=python3%403.6.2</a></p> <p>Then click "Load" and get an interactive shell against a virtual machine running Python 3.6.2 from 2017.</p> <