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by l___d__s 268 days ago
FYI there's a well-starred, corporate-backed, similar functionality, Nix-based product with the same name:

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

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I usually don't take name clashes as seriously as some people here do, but when it's even in the same general niche, then that's not really a good look. It means the author failed to check the prior art - which is still fine for a (n+1)th hobby project, but not really for something more serious.
That looks similar to Flox, which is also Nix-based. https://github.com/flox/flox
Yep this was super confusing. definitely change the name!
I thought that OP linked this devbox since so many subcommands from the cli are almost identical
Again another oversight i also didnt relise i was mirroring docker commands and npm.