Question about managing development environments in NixOS

1. shells.nix

   1 1 1 6.4 Nix

   My personal dev envs using nix

   

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3. devenv

   2 103 4,960 9.9 Nix

   Fast, Declarative, Reproducible, and Composable Developer Environments using Nix

   

   However, https://devenv.sh has a much better and cleaner underlying design, as well as easier UX/DX, and has been gaining feature at high-speed, so I'm working on migrating to it to simplify the maintenance.

4. nixos-config

   3 16 2,327 8.4 Nix

   My NixOS configurations.

   

   I have a NixOS dev environment in a VM which I built based on https://github.com/mitchellh/nixos-config. Similar to that setup, I use Flakes for my main configuration, and use home-manager to install + configure dev tools that I want available across multiple projects

5. devbox

   4 64 9,577 9.4 Go

   Instant, easy, and predictable development environments

   

   For individual project, I've used Devbox to quickly setup development shells, or install project specific packages and runtimes. It's a bit lighter weight then Flakes if you want to set up a bunch of projects (Disclosure: I work on the team behind Devbox).

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