user4020: I'm just gonna post a problem that I've been experiencing for a few days (and having a hard time searching for the answer on the internet) and the solution, so that future questions can refer to this solution.
Hardware
I'm using Macbook Pro Intel 2020, macOS Monterrey Beta 6
Problem
So the problem was when I was running nix-shell in the plutus repository for the first time, and after downloading all the dependencies, the nix-shell stuck at Building library for hnix-#.#.# and [1 of 50] Compiling Nix.Atoms.
What I did before compiling was installing Nix from the official documentation https://nixos.org/download.html
I also did configure the binary cache from https://github.com/input-output-hk/plutus#iohk-binary-cache
Also tried to start with and without https://github.com/input-output-hk/plutus#nix-on-macos
All to no success, still stuck at Building library for hnix-#.#.# and [1 of 50] Compiling Nix.Atoms

user4020: So the solution was simply to install nix-darwin
https://github.com/LnL7/nix-darwin
simply follow the instruction on the github page above, and now I can access my nix-shell

4020: <p>I'm just gonna post a problem that I've been experiencing for a few days (and having a hard time searching for the answer on the internet) and the solution, so that future questions can refer to this solution.</p>
<p><strong>Hardware</strong></p>
<p>I'm using Macbook Pro Intel 2020, macOS Monterrey Beta 6</p>
<p><strong>Problem</strong></p>
<p>So the problem was when I was running <code>nix-shell</code> in the plutus repository for the first time, and after downloading all the dependencies, the <code>nix-shell</code> stuck at <code>Building library for hnix-#.#.#</code> and <code>[1 of 50] Compiling Nix.Atoms</code>.</p>
<p>What I did before compiling was installing Nix from the official documentation <a href="https://nixos.org/download.html" rel="noreferrer">https://nixos.org/download.html</a></p>
<p>I also did configure the binary cache from <a href="https://github.com/input-output-hk/plutus#iohk-binary-cache" rel="noreferrer">https://github.com/input-output-hk/plutus#iohk-binary-cache</a></p>
<p>Also tried to start with and without <a href="https://github.com/input-output-hk/plutus#nix-on-macos" rel="noreferrer">https://github.com/input-output-hk/plutus#nix-on-macos</a></p>
<p>All to no success, still stuck at <code>Building library for hnix-#.#.#</code> and <code>[1 of 50] Compiling Nix.Atoms</code></p>
 4020: <p>So the solution was simply to install <code>nix-darwin</code></p>
<p><a href="https://github.com/LnL7/nix-darwin" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/LnL7/nix-darwin</a></p>
<p>simply follow the instruction on the github page above, and now I can access my <code>nix-shell</code></p>
