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by cquintana92 711 days ago
Been using Devbox recently both at work and for personal projects and I can only say good things. It abstracts away the complexity of nix, defining the dependencies in a simple json with a lock file, the shell starts quite fast and from then on you have everything under your PATH, and it works the same in macOS and Linux.

Also, as a benefit, by tracking the JSON and lockfile, the CI can work with the exact same environment. I highly recommend giving it a try.
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mtndew4brkfst 711 days ago
Also, as a benefit, by tracking the JSON and lockfile, the CI can work with the exact same environment.

This benefit is also possible under both Nix flakes (inherently) and vanilla Nix. The latter takes mild deliberate effort to not use channels-based import syntax but instead a fetcher with a pinned URL argument.

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Fire-Dragon-DoL 711 days ago
How does it compare to docker? Does it run stuff on baremetal?
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