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by z_mitchell 1y ago
That's mostly what we've built with Flox [1] (though I'm not exactly sure what you mean by run any command from any Nix package). It looks and feels like an amped up package manager, but uses Nix as kind of an infrastructure
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by z_mitchell 1y ago
Not really :) (disclosure: I work there) 1. "sugared up nix pkgs" -> Nixpkgs is a package repository, and also not the product here. We provide a tool for setting up and using reproducible developer environments via a familiar,
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by z_mitchell 2y ago
https://flox.dev/docs/cookbook/languages/rust/ That describes how to get set up with Rust. Long story short, cargo depends on a linker and brings it along, but doesn’t expose it to other programs via PAT
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by z_mitchell 2y ago
There’s a small number of us working on the docs and we actually just did a pass over them before the holidays to evaluate how well they help users get things done. We took some action items from that that we’ll be working in over the next
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by z_mitchell 2y ago
It uses Nix under the hood. I would argue that Nix does not make trivial environment setup easy. One of the reasons I love Flox for my own development is that I can just "flox install" packages. That doesn’t really exist for proje
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by z_mitchell 2y ago
I think that's a bit reductive, but I get the intent. A lot of people see systemic problems in their development and turn to tools to reduce the cognitive load, busywork, or just otherwise automate a solution. For example "we alwa
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by z_mitchell 2y ago
Hey, I'm actually the author and a Flox engineer. I don't use anything else for my personal projects these days, no plain Nix and no containers. One of the posts that I link the article describes an environment used to make proctr
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Proctrace – a high level profiler for process lifecycle events(tinkering.xyz)
1 points by z_mitchell 2y ago|0 comments
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by z_mitchell 2y ago
Author here, thanks for posting it u/thunderbong XD
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Making Nix Usable with Rust(filtra.io)
8 points by z_mitchell 3y ago|2 comments
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by z_mitchell 3y ago
Flox employee here, you can do that by creating an environment in your home directory and activating it in your `.bashrc` or `.zshrc` (we don’t support fish yet, but it’s on the roadmap). An environment created in your home directory is cal
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by z_mitchell 7y ago
Author here. Be warned, this was just a proof of concept that I did because I thought it would be fun/weird/interesting!