nix VS bob

Compare nix vs bob and see what are their differences.

nix

Nix, the purely functional package manager (by nix-windows)

bob

Bob is a high-level build tool for multi-language projects. (by benchkram)
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nix bob
1 33
42 432
- 3.2%
0.0 4.5
1 day ago 10 days ago
C++ Go
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only Apache License 2.0
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nix

Posts with mentions or reviews of nix. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-02.
  • We want to make Nix better
    17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Sep 2022
    There was some work being done to make Nix work on Windows [0] - but it might have fizzled out. I too would really love Nix to work on Windows. I already use it on both macOS and Linux and it’s great.

    [0] - https://github.com/nix-windows/nix

bob

Posts with mentions or reviews of bob. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-06.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing nix and bob you can also consider the following projects:

nixpkgs - Nix Packages collection & NixOS

devbox - Instant, easy, and predictable development environments

nix-doc - An interactive Nix documentation tool providing a CLI for function search, a Nix plugin for docs in the REPL, and a ctags implementation for Nix script

Bazel - a fast, scalable, multi-language and extensible build system

nix - Nix, the purely functional package manager

nix-portable - Nix - Static, Permissionless, Installation-free, Pre-configured

jsonnet - Jsonnet - The data templating language

envd - 🏕️ Reproducible development environment

rfcs - The Nix community RFCs

resholve - a shell resolver? :) (find and resolve shell script dependencies)

g - Simple go version manager, gluten-free