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What would be really handy at this point is a shim around Nix to make it trivial to manage ruby versions without having to learn a whole new ecosystem. I don't
by regularfry 11y ago
What would be really handy at this point is a shim around Nix to make it trivial to manage ruby versions without having to learn a whole new ecosystem. I don't want to learn Nix, I want to use Ruby.
Actually, that would have been really handy about 5 years ago, but the point stands: the problem with general tools like Nix is that you need a popular, specific application of them to get them across the chasm. Not only would a wrapper script using Nix to manage ruby versions be actually useful, it ought to be relatively easy to repurpose to node, elixir, elm, GHC, whatever. Make it so that I don't need to care that I'm using Nix in the background, and I'm actually more likely to use it.