{
  description = "Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors";

  inputs = {
    nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable";
    flake-compat = {
      url = "github:edolstra/flake-compat";
      flake = false;
    };
  };

  outputs =
    { self, nixpkgs, ... }:
    let
      inherit (nixpkgs) lib;
      genSystems =
        func:
        lib.genAttrs
          [
            "x86_64-linux"
            "aarch64-linux"
          ]
          (
            system:
            func (
              import nixpkgs {
                inherit system;
                overlays = with self.overlays; [
                  waybar
                ];
              }
            )
          );

      mkDate =
        longDate:
        (lib.concatStringsSep "-" [
          (builtins.substring 0 4 longDate)
          (builtins.substring 4 2 longDate)
          (builtins.substring 6 2 longDate)
        ]);
    in
    {
      devShells = genSystems (pkgs: {
        default = pkgs.mkShell {
          name = "waybar-shell";

          # inherit attributes from upstream nixpkgs derivation
          inherit (pkgs.waybar)
            buildInputs
            depsBuildBuild
            depsBuildBuildPropagated
            depsBuildTarget
            depsBuildTargetPropagated
            depsHostHost
            depsHostHostPropagated
            depsTargetTarget
            depsTargetTargetPropagated
            propagatedBuildInputs
            propagatedNativeBuildInputs
            strictDeps
            ;

          # overrides for local development
          nativeBuildInputs =
            pkgs.waybar.nativeBuildInputs
            ++ (with pkgs; [
              nixfmt-rfc-style
              clang-tools
              gdb
            ]);
        };
      });

      formatter = genSystems (
        pkgs:
        pkgs.treefmt.withConfig {
          settings = [
            {
              formatter = {
                clang-format = {
                  options = [ "-i" ];
                  command = lib.getExe' pkgs.clang-tools "clang-format";
                  excludes = [ ];
                  includes = [
                    "*.c"
                    "*.cpp"
                    "*.h"
                    "*.hpp"
                  ];
                };
                nixfmt = {
                  command = lib.getExe pkgs.nixfmt-rfc-style;
                  includes = [ "*.nix" ];
                };
              };
              tree-root-file = ".git/index";
            }
          ];
        }
      );

      overlays = {
        default = self.overlays.waybar;
        waybar = final: prev: {
          waybar = final.callPackage ./nix/default.nix {
            waybar = prev.waybar;
            # take the first "version: '...'" from meson.build
            version =
              (builtins.head (
                builtins.split "'" (
                  builtins.elemAt (builtins.split " version: '" (builtins.readFile ./meson.build)) 2
                )
              ))
              + "+date="
              + (mkDate (self.lastModifiedDate or "19700101"))
              + "_"
              + (self.shortRev or "dirty");
          };
        };
      };

      packages = genSystems (pkgs: {
        default = self.packages.${pkgs.stdenv.hostPlatform.system}.waybar;
        inherit (pkgs) waybar;
      });
    };
}