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by mystifyingpoi
390 days ago
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I have never tried Nix, but read about it a lot, and I agree that this part is most of the time completely glossed over in tutorials. I get that nix-shell is cool, and I can get the shell with everything configured to run, let's say, Python with specific deps, very easily - but... then what? Can I run, let's say, IDEA or vscode from there and get all the PATH stuff right? Or does it require extra magic? Not everyone lives and breathes in terminal (even though I mostly do). |
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Yes.
But if you use an editor for many projects at once, it'll work better if different projects can have different PATHs set, in which case you can use direnv + an appropriate direnv plugin for your editor. That way you don't have to worry about launching your editor from inside nix-shell or whatever.
IIRC IDEA is still defective in this way, not allowing per-project environment variables, but Emacs, Vim/Neovim, and VSCode all handle this nicely.