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by lexlash 776 days ago
Having tried asdf - among other tools - for awhile, dropping it for nix+flakes+direnv was great.

Devenv seems nice (in fact it’s how I started down this path) but I haven’t found anything it does for me that I can’t get out of flakes - so far.
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robinhoodexe 776 days ago
I'm considering doing a pilot (~5 devs out of 120) with using nix to manage dependencies and build containers at $DAYJOB, and here I think devenv is nice as a "one package" plus an active community for support.
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lexlash 776 days ago
95% of the difficulty I have at $DAYJOB is nix installation and dealing with enterprise certificate/auth crud…sadly devenv doesn’t help much there.

Our pilot is quite a bit larger. Sticking to plainer flakes has made it easier for folks to self-service for now but we do intend to re-evaluate devenv.

Same username on twitter if you’re interested in chatting.

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