[mplanchard]

Not trying to spam this thread with praises of nix, because it does have its own problems, but it certainly solves the portability problem.

Four years in to using it at work for dev environments across mac (x86 & ARM) and various linuxes and can’t imagine going back. I also always make dev environment definitions for my open source projects, so even if people aren’t using nix, there is at least a record of what tools they will need to install to run scripts, tests, etc.

[nine_k]

Does nix work well on BSD-derived Unices? In particular, the most widespread of them, macOS?

[mplanchard]

Yes, works great on Mac. About half our engineers us Macs, the other half Linux. We have one nix configuration for the dev environment, which works for everyone.