npt VS dotfiles

You can also just install flakes doing nix profile install . I wrote a tool to make it a bit easier, npt but it's completely optional. Once you install the packages with nix profile. Then in your repos you can use a flake with a devShell and run nix develop. Check https://flake.parts to write your flakes.

I've been working in something similar https://github.com/woile/npt but it's in much earlier stages.

Me too! That's why I wrote the small wrapper on nix to install imperatively, the npt, which gets the job done, though an official alternative would be better. I understand nix side, but it's hard to break old habits, and not only that, it would be ideal if I can install nix at my parents, and let them use a simple tool with nix underneath. This means for me, focusing only on nix.

I've just (literally a few hours ago) started a tool trying to follow those principles.

https://github.com/woile/npt

I still don't know if it's worth, I have to experiment a bit more with it

Neovim, I used Vs Code but I prefer Neovim. There's this open source repository that I've been using to set up neovim in my terminal. It makes life so much easier than installing plugins and stuff on other IDEs Check it out: https://github.com/fluxninja/dotfiles

1. It doesn't do a good job in making a backup of existing files as it's meant to be setup on a new machine. However, the setup script can be quickly modified to backup existing files. See [0].

2. Yes, it installs required packages via brew both on macOS and Linux. See [1].

[0] https://github.com/fluxninja/dotfiles/blob/master/sw/assets/...

[1] https://github.com/fluxninja/dotfiles/blob/master/sw/bin/exe...

We recently started providing standardized neovim centric dotfiles setup to developers at our startup and this setup has improved productivity quite a lot.

Our neovim "distribution" is highly geared towards our tech stack (Golang etc.).

See: https://github.com/fluxninja/dotfiles