nix-direnv VS lorri

Compare nix-direnv vs lorri and see what are their differences.

nix-direnv

A fast, persistent use_nix/use_flake implementation for direnv [maintainer=@Mic92 / @bbenne10] (by nix-community)

lorri

Your project's nix-env (by target)
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nix-direnv lorri
29 6
2,012 998
4.1% -
7.9 0.0
10 days ago over 2 years ago
Shell Rust
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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nix-direnv

Posts with mentions or reviews of nix-direnv. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-05-20.

lorri

Posts with mentions or reviews of lorri. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-07.
  • NixOS + Haskell best practices circa March 2023
    6 projects | /r/haskell | 7 Mar 2023
    lorri
  • Lorri: Project's Nix-Env
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Aug 2021
  • niv, naersk, napalm: moving on
    7 projects | /r/NixOS | 9 Jul 2021
    And how does niv compare to https://github.com/target/lorri
  • A treatise on Nix
    3 projects | /r/haskell | 9 Apr 2021
    Yes, you can "hold on", it's called gcroots. There's lorri which you can also use to defer the tediousness of managing the gcroots to a daemon.
  • Per process memory and CPU usage control
    2 projects | /r/NixOS | 29 Mar 2021
    Not that I know of but if you are having trouble with rebuilding and running out of memory, maybe the solution would be to cache the builds locally? You could use lorri to cache your development builds (https://github.com/target/lorri).
  • NixOS Linux
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Jan 2021
    > Using a special command (nix-shell) whenever I needed to do development things (e.g. Rust builds) was not my idea of fun.

    Funny you should mention that, because that's exactly what got me using Nix everywhere :). I've always hated installing tools and libraries globally—what if I need a different version for a future project?—so I like tools that sandbox as much as possible like virtualenv, cargo, cabal... etc. But these tools are all language-specific and have their own limitations (especially around native libraries and dependencies written in other languages).

    nix-shell gives me the equivalent of virtualenv that works for everything. I can have a single sandboxed environment even if my project uses a bunch of different languages and I can manage everything in a reproducible, low-overhead fashion. No more worrying about making a mess by installing tools or packages globally.

    Then, once I got really used to that, I spent some time setting up direnv[1] and lorri[2]—both of which are themselves managed with Nix, of course!—so that my environment gets automatically configured as soon as I enter a project directory without needing to call nix-shell explicitly. To be honest, the experience is still a bit rough, but it works well enough day-to-day that I have my reproducible sandbox cake and eat it in an mostly frictionless way too :).

    [1]: https://direnv.net/

    [2]: https://github.com/target/lorri

What are some alternatives?

When comparing nix-direnv and lorri you can also consider the following projects:

devenv - Fast, Declarative, Reproducible, and Composable Developer Environments

direnv - unclutter your .profile

devshell - Per project developer environments

dotfiles - i3 + Plasma: using the i3 window manager on the top of KDE Plasma and other dotfiles, configurations, scripts, workarounds and practises from my Debian Sid machines.

naersk - Build Rust projects in Nix - no configuration, no code generation, no IFD, sandbox friendly.

nickel - Better configuration for less

nix-config - :space_invader: NixOS configuration

nix - Nix, the purely functional package manager

rnix-lsp - WIP Language Server for Nix! [maintainer=@aaronjanse]

patchelf - A small utility to modify the dynamic linker and RPATH of ELF executables

flake-templates - A collection of Nix flake templates for adding a reproducible environment quickly

nixops - NixOps is a tool for deploying to NixOS machines in a network or cloud.

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