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DevEnv looks like the most exciting thing to happen with Nix recently. Previously, I think Nix was more of a benefit for the operations (who benefit from "make
by rgoulter 4y ago
DevEnv looks like the most exciting thing to happen with Nix recently.
Previously, I think Nix was more of a benefit for the operations (who benefit from "make deployments where the programs run with the same behaviour). Though, I think Docker containers have already eaten that space.
Since Nix Flakes, most of the attention I've seen has been using Nix for developer setups.. where there really isn't much which does what Nix does. (VSCode's devcontainers / GitHub CodeSpaces don't seem to get a lot of attention).
DevEnv seems excellent for developer setups. I'm not sure the devenv services will be able to compellingly replace docker-compose setups. But, for nix-empowered developers, the tool looks really neat.