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I wonder if something like this could be used instead of conda or pixi to manage Python packages, the used-version of Python, the Python virtualenv, etc.
It looks like you've pared back some of the more expert configurability in order to clean up the UX. I really like the environment focus and composability, which is a real pain point in the Nix world.
Do you have a plan to add back any of that configurability over time? I realize I am probably not your target audience, at least as a free user, and perhaps your enterprise offering will answer all of my questions.
* [devenv](devenv.sh) - I am using it and loving it, but worried that the development is not moving forward
* [devbox](https://www.jetpack.io/devbox)
* [daytona](https://www.daytona.io/docs/usage/workspaces/)
* [devshell](https://github.com/numtide/devshell)
* [bob.build](bob.build) more focused on the build
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Put another way, I would think that individual engineers would be better off learning the underlying tech and the tools provided that go with them. I think it's very possible that Flox (or devenv or...) reaches EOL, or ceases to track nixpkgs appropriately, or any of the other ways that software rots. Where nix develop is going to last as long as Nix Flakes do, and there's incentive to provide a migration path to wha…
Does a python developer NEED to know how C works to write automation scripts that work reasonably well? This logic is silly.
There are several tools in this space now- nix is maturing and people are realizing how useful nix can be for dev envs. * [devenv](devenv.sh) - I am using it and loving it, but worried that the development is not moving forward * [devbox](https://www.jetpack.io/devbox) * [daytona](https://www.daytona.io/docs/usage/workspaces/) * [devshell](https://github.com/numtide/devshell) * [bob.build](bob.build) more focused on…
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I just want clean, repeatable environments for different projects. I’ve tried getting into Nix a few times but I always get overwhelmed by all the different things it is/does. This looks 100x simpler to me.
Hmm... I understand that if you don't know anything about the language or what is a flake, it may be a little bit difficult. But really, adding a new package to your environment once you have a flake setup, which a minimal one is trivial, is just adding the name of the package. Here you have a flake.nix example from leptos. https://github.com/leptos-rs/leptos/blob/main/flake.nix You want a new dependency? Add it to b…
After a few months, I needed to do that again, but now the project supported devenv.sh. It took me 5 min.
That experience also repeated for other kinds of tasks, for example: start postgres (or redis or elasticsearch or cassandra...), install packages only if the host system is `darwin`, install old versions of packages that aren't on the registry anymore, etc...
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Hmm... I understand that if you don't know anything about the language or what is a flake, it may be a little bit difficult. But really, adding a new package to your environment once you have a flake setup, which a minimal one is trivial, is just adding the name of the package. Here you have a flake.nix example from leptos. https://github.com/leptos-rs/leptos/blob/main/flake.nix You want a new dependency? Add it to b…
I once needed to install a specific version of a package on my nix environment. It took me 2 hours to find how... After a few months, I needed to do that again, but now the project supported devenv.sh. It took me 5 min. That experience also repeated for other kinds of tasks, for example: start postgres (or redis or elasticsearch or cassandra...), install packages only if the host system is `darwin`, install old versi…
I'm not really against tools that make it easier to use nix, I think devenv is a nice tool and I like that it doesn't hide nix, the same way I love home-manager and use it all the time.
Glad that all these different companies are exploring more ways to use Nix and hopefully improvements can be shared throughout the ecosystem.