[jobeirne]

Very cool project -- definitely recommend anyone interested in desk checks this out.

From what I can tell, though, desk's design allows for slightly different uses: namely (because desk consolidates configuration into one directory), desk configuration is more easily shareable across computers. In order to recreate your direnv setup on another machine, you'd have to go and symlink all your direnv files manually (unless they're somehow embedded in the repos or folders you're working in).

Direnv doesn't (AFAICT) attempt to surface documentation for the shell files it executes, whereas a lot of desk's value is in displaying a quick reference for common tasks within a workspace.