Using Nix as an alternative to dev containers in VScode.

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  • nix-cde

    Nix Common Development Environment

    • I myself use https://github.com/takeda/nix-cde it just wraps other projects in an opinionated way and contains the boiler plate that I would normally use otherwise.

  • devenv

    Fast, Declarative, Reproducible, and Composable Developer Environments

    • It also provide first-class interface for building [containers](https://devenv.sh/containers/) and comes with a lot of [services](https://github.com/cachix/devenv/tree/main/src/modules/services) (like NixOS over nixpkgs).

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  • direnv-vscode

    unclutter your .profile

    • It seems that there is a plugin https://github.com/direnv/direnv-vscode that can load .envrc for the workspace. I am not a vscode user though so I cannot test it.

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