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That's mostly what we've built with Flox [1] (though I'm not exactly sure what you mean by run any command from any Nix package). It looks and feels like an amped up package manage…

Not really :) (disclosure: I work there) 1. "sugared up nix pkgs" -> Nixpkgs is a package repository, and also not the product here. We provide a tool for setting up and using repr…

https://flox.dev/docs/cookbook/languages/rust/ That describes how to get set up with Rust. Long story short, cargo depends on a linker and brings it along, but doesn’t expose it to…

There’s a small number of us working on the docs and we actually just did a pass over them before the holidays to evaluate how well they help users get things done. We took some ac…

It uses Nix under the hood. I would argue that Nix does not make trivial environment setup easy. One of the reasons I love Flox for my own development is that I can just "flox inst…

I think that's a bit reductive, but I get the intent. A lot of people see systemic problems in their development and turn to tools to reduce the cognitive load, busywork, or just o…

Hey, I'm actually the author and a Flox engineer. I don't use anything else for my personal projects these days, no plain Nix and no containers. One of the posts that I link the ar…

Author here, thanks for posting it u/thunderbong XD

Flox employee here, you can do that by creating an environment in your home directory and activating it in your `.bashrc` or `.zshrc` (we don’t support fish yet, but it’s on the ro…

Author here. Be warned, this was just a proof of concept that I did because I thought it would be fun/weird/interesting!