diff --git a/flake.lock b/flake.lock
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+{
+  "nodes": {
+    "flake-utils": {
+      "inputs": {
+        "systems": "systems"
+      },
+      "locked": {
+        "lastModified": 1731533236,
+        "narHash": "sha256-l0KFg5HjrsfsO/JpG+r7fRrqm12kzFHyUHqHCVpMMbI=",
+        "owner": "numtide",
+        "repo": "flake-utils",
+        "rev": "11707dc2f618dd54ca8739b309ec4fc024de578b",
+        "type": "github"
+      },
+      "original": {
+        "owner": "numtide",
+        "repo": "flake-utils",
+        "type": "github"
+      }
+    },
+    "nixpkgs": {
+      "locked": {
+        "lastModified": 1772773019,
+        "narHash": "sha256-E1bxHxNKfDoQUuvriG71+f+s/NT0qWkImXsYZNFFfCs=",
+        "owner": "NixOS",
+        "repo": "nixpkgs",
+        "rev": "aca4d95fce4914b3892661bcb80b8087293536c6",
+        "type": "github"
+      },
+      "original": {
+        "owner": "NixOS",
+        "ref": "nixos-unstable",
+        "repo": "nixpkgs",
+        "type": "github"
+      }
+    },
+    "root": {
+      "inputs": {
+        "flake-utils": "flake-utils",
+        "nixpkgs": "nixpkgs",
+        "rust-overlay": "rust-overlay"
+      }
+    },
+    "rust-overlay": {
+      "inputs": {
+        "nixpkgs": [
+          "nixpkgs"
+        ]
+      },
+      "locked": {
+        "lastModified": 1773025773,
+        "narHash": "sha256-Wik8+xApNfldpUFjPmJkPdg0RrvUPSWGIZis+A/0N1w=",
+        "owner": "oxalica",
+        "repo": "rust-overlay",
+        "rev": "3c06fdbbd36ff60386a1e590ee0cd52dcd1892bf",
+        "type": "github"
+      },
+      "original": {
+        "owner": "oxalica",
+        "repo": "rust-overlay",
+        "type": "github"
+      }
+    },
+    "systems": {
+      "locked": {
+        "lastModified": 1681028828,
+        "narHash": "sha256-Vy1rq5AaRuLzOxct8nz4T6wlgyUR7zLU309k9mBC768=",
+        "owner": "nix-systems",
+        "repo": "default",
+        "rev": "da67096a3b9bf56a91d16901293e51ba5b49a27e",
+        "type": "github"
+      },
+      "original": {
+        "owner": "nix-systems",
+        "repo": "default",
+        "type": "github"
+      }
+    }
+  },
+  "root": "root",
+  "version": 7
+}
diff --git a/flake.nix b/flake.nix
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+{
+  description = "chase-rs: An efficient implementation of the chase algorithm in Rust";
+
+  inputs = {
+    nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable";
+    flake-utils.url = "github:numtide/flake-utils";
+    rust-overlay = {
+      url = "github:oxalica/rust-overlay";
+      inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
+    };
+  };
+
+  outputs = { self, nixpkgs, flake-utils, rust-overlay }:
+    flake-utils.lib.eachDefaultSystem (system:
+      let
+        overlays = [ (import rust-overlay) ];
+        pkgs = import nixpkgs {
+          inherit system overlays;
+        };
+
+        rustToolchain = pkgs.rust-bin.stable.latest.default.override {
+          extensions = [ "rust-src" "rust-analyzer" "clippy" "rustfmt" ];
+        };
+      in
+      {
+        devShells.default = pkgs.mkShell {
+          buildInputs = [
+            rustToolchain
+            pkgs.pkg-config
+            pkgs.openssl
+          ];
+
+          shellHook = ''
+            echo "chase-rs development shell"
+            echo "Rust: $(rustc --version)"
+          '';
+
+          OPENSSL_DIR = "${pkgs.openssl.dev}";
+          OPENSSL_LIB_DIR = "${pkgs.openssl.out}/lib";
+          OPENSSL_INCLUDE_DIR = "${pkgs.openssl.dev}/include";
+          PKG_CONFIG_PATH = "${pkgs.openssl.dev}/lib/pkgconfig";
+        };
+      }
+    );
+}