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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
mt-shell
Posts with mentions or reviews of mt-shell.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-03.
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A minimal nix-shell
So why not have no dependencies: https://github.com/jappeace/mt-shell/blob/master/mt-shell.nix
devshell
Posts with mentions or reviews of devshell.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-13.
- Show HN: Flox 1.0 – Open-source dev env as code with Nix
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Any tips for setting up a local development environment for wordpress?
numtide/devshell is cool little extension to bare devshells, you may wanna have it.
- Devshell – like virtualenv, but for all the languages
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Devenv.sh: Fast and reproducible developer environments using Nix
There is also devshell[1] which allows you to configure specific commands for your `env` and sits inside your flake.
[1]: https://github.com/numtide/devshell
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Just, Nix Shell and Podman are a Killer Combo
devshell is pretty useful too :)
- Ask HN: What is your development workflow on the MacBook M1?
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Building a highly optimized home environment with Nix
I'm new to the Nix world, but so far I've come across Divnix's Digga, Numtide's DevShell, and Misterio77's nix-starter-configs.
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Annoncing Shix, tailored development shells made with Nix
How does it differ from https://github.com/numtide/devshell ?
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Nim packages stats
But take a look at devshell is like the NixOS/HomeManager of your (any language) project. I over abused it to create YAML files and to use Nim as script
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Use remote package derivation file with nix-shell --packages option
Here's an example with devShell as a remote repository: sh nix-shell -p '(import (fetchGit "https://github.com/numtide/devshell") {}).cli'
What are some alternatives?
When comparing mt-shell and devshell you can also consider the following projects:
nixpkgs - Nix Packages collection & NixOS
nix-direnv - A fast, persistent use_nix/use_flake implementation for direnv [maintainer=@Mic92 / @bbenne10]
Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]
nix-config - :space_invader: NixOS configuration
devenv - Fast, Declarative, Reproducible, and Composable Developer Environments
flake-template - My template for Nix flakes
nix-gui - Use NixOS Without Coding
nixos-nvidia-vgpu - NixOS NVIDIA vGPU Module
nix - Nix, the purely functional package manager
nix-fpga-tools
nixos-hardware - A collection of NixOS modules covering hardware quirks.