Hi Ron! In ~2000 I drove from south Jersey to deep Long Island and only realized while staring at a server rack that I brought the bag o' CDs that we used for windows deployments, not *nix. Thanks to Robert Moses, the drive in the middle of the night actually wasn't that bad!
Show HN: Flox 1.0 – Open-source dev env as code with Nix
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Re: Show HN: Flox 1.0 – Open-source dev env as code with Nix
#112Very cool. I will try it out as replacement of nix profile.
flox install/show/search in $HOME looks like way better UX
https://flox.dev/docs/tutorials/layering-multiple-environmen...
Re: Show HN: Flox 1.0 – Open-source dev env as code with Nix
#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
or https://www.jetpack.io/devbox/ :ˆ)
Ah! The modern hell of choice. Can’t these peeps just work together and make one great thing instead of fragmenting over and over? I think I know the answers but have to ask anyway, hope to learn.
That’s equivalent to demanding the Python community to abolish PyPI in favor of making the “one great” standard library. Nix is a language after all. It’s meant to have tools that build on it.
Re: Show HN: Flox 1.0 – Open-source dev env as code with Nix
#114any support for a direnv driven workflow?
Re: Show HN: Flox 1.0 – Open-source dev env as code with Nix
#115is this a fork of regular nix?
It seems like it might be because they have special instructions for nixos users.. kind of makes me affraid to install it tbh.
Re: Show HN: Flox 1.0 – Open-source dev env as code with Nix
#116There 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…
Great list.
Using devbox myself and very happy with it.
Would be great to hear what separates flox from the rest.
Re: Show HN: Flox 1.0 – Open-source dev env as code with Nix
#117There 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…
Not nix based, but I really like https://github.com/jdx/mise too to manage dev tools. It’s a modern version of https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf written in Rust.
Formerly known as `rtx`
Re: Show HN: Flox 1.0 – Open-source dev env as code with Nix
#118I tried devbox and some other tool in that field.
I then tried dev containers.
Dev containers won. Hands down.
Re: Show HN: Flox 1.0 – Open-source dev env as code with Nix
#119I tried devbox and some other tool in that field. I then tried dev containers. Dev containers won. Hands down.
They're nice, but they lock you into vscode
Re: Show HN: Flox 1.0 – Open-source dev env as code with Nix
#120I tried devbox and some other tool in that field. I then tried dev containers. Dev containers won. Hands down.
You don't need to choose :). You can use Devcontainers with most of the Nix tools, including Devbox. See
https://containers.dev/supporting