diff --git a/flake.lock b/flake.lock
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+++ b/flake.lock
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+{
+  "nodes": {
+    "nixpkgs": {
+      "locked": {
+        "lastModified": 1704008649,
+        "narHash": "sha256-rGPSWjXTXTurQN9beuHdyJhB8O761w1Zc5BqSSmHvoM=",
+        "owner": "NixOS",
+        "repo": "nixpkgs",
+        "rev": "d44d59d2b5bd694cd9d996fd8c51d03e3e9ba7f7",
+        "type": "github"
+      },
+      "original": {
+        "owner": "NixOS",
+        "ref": "nixpkgs-unstable",
+        "repo": "nixpkgs",
+        "type": "github"
+      }
+    },
+    "root": {
+      "inputs": {
+        "nixpkgs": "nixpkgs",
+        "utils": "utils"
+      }
+    },
+    "systems": {
+      "locked": {
+        "lastModified": 1681028828,
+        "narHash": "sha256-Vy1rq5AaRuLzOxct8nz4T6wlgyUR7zLU309k9mBC768=",
+        "owner": "nix-systems",
+        "repo": "default",
+        "rev": "da67096a3b9bf56a91d16901293e51ba5b49a27e",
+        "type": "github"
+      },
+      "original": {
+        "owner": "nix-systems",
+        "repo": "default",
+        "type": "github"
+      }
+    },
+    "utils": {
+      "inputs": {
+        "systems": "systems"
+      },
+      "locked": {
+        "lastModified": 1701680307,
+        "narHash": "sha256-kAuep2h5ajznlPMD9rnQyffWG8EM/C73lejGofXvdM8=",
+        "owner": "numtide",
+        "repo": "flake-utils",
+        "rev": "4022d587cbbfd70fe950c1e2083a02621806a725",
+        "type": "github"
+      },
+      "original": {
+        "owner": "numtide",
+        "repo": "flake-utils",
+        "type": "github"
+      }
+    }
+  },
+  "root": "root",
+  "version": 7
+}
diff --git a/flake.nix b/flake.nix
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+{
+  description = "pygls: The Generic Language Server Framework";
+
+  inputs = {
+    nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixpkgs-unstable";
+    utils.url = "github:numtide/flake-utils";
+  };
+
+  outputs = { self, nixpkgs, utils }:
+
+    utils.lib.eachDefaultSystem(system:
+      let
+        pkgs = import nixpkgs { inherit system; };
+        python-wasi = pkgs.callPackage ./nix/python-wasi.nix {};
+        # TODO: Perhaps an overlay would allow callPackage to know what python-wasi is.
+        mkPythonWASIShell = pkgs.callPackage ./nix/python.nix { python-wasi = python-wasi; };
+      in {
+
+        devShells.default = mkPythonWASIShell {
+          pyPackages = with pkgs.python311Packages; [
+            lsprotocol
+          ];
+        };
+      }
+    );
+}
diff --git a/nix/python-wasi.nix b/nix/python-wasi.nix
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+{ fetchzip, stdenv }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  pname = "python-wasi";
+  version = "3.11.4";
+
+  src = fetchzip {
+    url = "https://github.com/brettcannon/cpython-wasi-build/releases/download/v3.11.4/python-3.11.4-wasi_sdk-16.zip";
+    stripRoot = false;
+    sha256 = "sha256-AZGdgpRvHcu6FY/a7capldjDhTpkfhGkqYnm127nAN8=";
+  };
+
+  buildCommand = ''
+   mkdir $out
+   cp -r $src/* $out
+  '';
+}
diff --git a/nix/python.nix b/nix/python.nix
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+{ lib
+, python-wasi
+, mkShell
+, stdenv
+, wasmtime
+, writeShellScriptBin
+}:
+
+{ pyPackages ? []
+}:
+
+let
+
+  pyDeps = lib.concatMap (pkg: lib.remove pkg.pythonModule pkg.requiredPythonModules) pyPackages;
+  allPackages = lib.unique (pyPackages ++ pyDeps);
+
+  pythonPath = lib.concatMapStringsSep ":" (pkg: "${pkg}/lib/python3.11/site-packages") allPackages;
+
+  python = writeShellScriptBin "python-wasi" ''
+   exec ${wasmtime}/bin/wasmtime run ${python-wasi}/python.wasm \
+     --env PYTHONHOME=${python-wasi} \
+     --env PYTHONPATH='.:${pythonPath}' \
+     --dir ${python-wasi} \
+     ${lib.concatMapStringsSep "\\\n  " (pkg: "--dir '${pkg}/lib/python3.11/site-packages' ") allPackages} \
+     --dir . \
+     -- "$@"
+  '';
+
+in mkShell {
+  name = "python-wasi";
+  packages = [ python ];
+}