[pxc]

I built something like this out using an old version of Dagger and found it enormously complicated, and the they rewrote everything and abandoned the version of Dagger I used.

When I they did, I said "fuck it" and just started distributing a Nix flake with wrappers for all the tools I want to run in CI so that at least that part gets handled safely and is easy to run locally.

The worst and most annoying stuff to test is the CI platforms' accursed little pseudo-YAML DSLs. I still would like that piece.

devenv.sh tasks might be a good basis for building on it. I think maybe bob.build also wants to be like this

[sea-gold]

In addition to https://devenv.sh and https://bob.build , here are 2 others that are based on Nix.

- https://flox.dev

- https://www.jetify.com/devbox

[pxc]

Yes! I knew that those are comparable to devenv.sh (what my team uses; love it!) in terms of environment management but wasn't yet aware of whether or not they also have task runners like one might use to build CI/CD pipeline logic.

I also want to say that this approach has largely spared my team the pain many users seem to have with Docker on aarch64 Macs. Nix works well on both aarch64 and x86_64, and doesn't require emulation to run. This is really more appropriate for running development tools locally, I think.