[LeBit]

I tried devbox and some other tool in that field.

I then tried dev containers.

Dev containers won. Hands down.

[jljljl]

You don't need to choose :). You can use Devcontainers with most of the Nix tools, including Devbox. See https://containers.dev/supporting

[LeBit]

I just gave that link to someone else who commented here. :)

You are right, but at the end of the day, I prefer to write my own installation scripts or "features" than dealing with Nix.

Maybe some day I'll go back to a nix tool to help writing a complex devcontainer.json with everything I need.

[lillecarl]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39697259

"But there are hoards more that think you should just write hacky shell scripts and bugs don't really matter anyway."

[LeBit]

The link doesn't open on my side.

Yeah, I am aware writing my own scripts isn't ideal, but this is the current state of affair.

I could use mise to install most tools though. I would need to figure out what the overhead would be.

[LeBit]

Ah! I was able to open the link in a proper browser. I'm using HACK on iOS.

Thanks for the condescending comment.

[physPop]

They're nice, but they lock you into vscode

[LeBit]

There are more and more tools making use of the dev containers spec: https://devcontainers.github.io/supporting.html