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The Nixpkgs Core team was established in Sept 2025 ( https://discourse.nixos.org/t/establishing-the-nixpkgs-core-... ), so it is a fairly new concept and idea. They've accomplished…

Perhaps give boats some advantage in capacity.

Presumably this would support a big improvement to both SBOM generation as well as various UX features and workflow improvements.

Trading perfect reproducibility for usability: a pragmatic look at Flox's new features

This is exactly how I can rapidly prototype things. Once proficient with this tooling is becomes very easy to quickly spin up services and PoCs. Managing it and iterating is also a…

Random thought. Another commenter worried about the runtime of the program becoming mangled and performing destructive operations on your machine. What if you run the reducer as a …

Agreed. Packaging is different than deployment. Devs should return to the art of packaging, such that their software can be then deployed into containers, VMs, micro VMs, whatever.…

This is excellent. Have you considered making a presentation or a write-up of the experience?

A similar article for bringing Ruby into the Nix ecosystem: https://flox.dev/blog/flox-and-ruby

This is an excellent pattern. Nix uses it to allow one to create a full transitive build graph, serialized that plan, move it around, and execute it in a distributed and reproducib…

`flox` needs Nix to function. So the rpm/dev/OSX installers first install Nix, and then installs flox itself. If you have Nix already, you can try it out as described here: https:/…

That link in hub.flox.dev is wrong. The link at https://flox.dev/terms-conditions is correct. Fixing.... thanks!

The python ecosystem will require specific support, so at the moment we recommend using `flox` to get all of the other things that might not be managed by an existing Python packag…

Yes. We have designs to allow for more powerful configuration for experts. A good example of this is let people use alternative manifest representations; JSON, Nix, etc.

Yes, I'm also a Nix maintainer. `nix develop` does many other things, originally based on re-creating the build environment of a derivation. This means that it is not ideal for the…

Yes. For limited situations it provides a simpler interface. Flox won't provide exactly the same feature set, but there are many situations where home-manager is too much. You can …