Yep it's similar, but you bring all your dependencies with you through Nix rather than a language specific package manager. Try using something like devenv.sh

Yep it's similar, but you bring all your dependencies with you through Nix rather than a language specific package manager. Try using something like devenv.sh initially just to bring tools into $PATH in a distro agnostic & mostly-ish MacOS compatible way (so you can guarantee everyone has the same versions of EVERYTHING you need to build your thing). Learn the language basics after it brings you value already, then learn about derivations and then the module system which is this crazy composable multilayer recursive magic merging type system implemented on top of Nix, don't be afraid to clone nixpkgs and look inside. Nix derivations are essentially Dockerfiles on steroids, but Nix language brings /nix/store paths into the container, sets environment variables for you and runs some scripts, and all these things are hashed so if any input changes it triggers automatic cascading rebuilds, but also means you can use a binary cache as a kind of "memoization" caching thingy which is nice. It's a very useful tool, it's very non-invasive on your system (other than disk space if you're not managing garbage collection) and you can use it in combination with other tools. Makes it very easy to guarantee your DevOps scripts runs exactly your versions of all CLI tools and build systems and whatever even if the final piece isn't through Nix. Look at "pgroll" for Postgres migrations :)